Constable

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Employer	Rose Macaulay	After the war, RM went to work as a reader of fiction for the Constable publishing house, who shortly afterwards published her books What Not and Three Days. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 178 Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 139
Employer	Helen Waddell	In Michaelmas Term 1926 HW had a second public academic success with an immensely popular course of lectures, contributed to the Oxford University programme by Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) , under the title The Wandering...
Employer	Helen Waddell	Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Family and Intimate relationships	Helen Waddell	The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Kyllmann
Friends, Associates	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ 's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable publishing family, John Ruffini , and Vernon Lee . Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. cxlvii
Literary responses	F. Tennyson Jesse	The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. qtd. in Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 213 In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...
Other Life Event	Helen Waddell	During the second world war Constable 's publishing office, where HW still worked, was bombed but quickly repaired. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973. 152, 154 Her own house twice suffered damage from bombing: in 1944 and 1945. On the first...
Publishing	E. Nesbit	Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing	May Sinclair	For The Three BrontësMS changed her publisher to Hutchinson , who had offered her a generous advance on her next three novels. She probably felt that Constable had not made enough effort on the...
Publishing	Jane Loudon	She dedicated Gardening for Ladies to her husband . Its title-page mentions The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals and the introduction is dated 21 May. It was hugely successful, selling 1,350 copies on the very...
Publishing	Anna Seward	AS had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray in London, who advised him against...
Publishing	Anna Seward	She had herself carefully revised her twelve manuscript volumes of copies, and had left them to a publisher. Scott (himself among her correspondents) said he would not help to perpetuate such gossip as the letters...
Publishing	Rose Macaulay	Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 138 Two were reprinted in Catherine Reilly 's Scars Upon My Heart, 1981. Sidgwick and Jackson , who had published RM
Publishing	Jean Rhys	Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape , turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion.Constable finally agreed...
Publishing	Anne Grant	Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton

Timeline

1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.

Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.

154: 17

January 1873

Women were recruited for compositors' jobs during the Scottish printers' strike which had begun 15 November 1872.

Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

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Texts

Acland, Alice. Caroline Norton. Constable, 1948.

Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable, 1957.

Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.

Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont in 1674. Editor Harrison, George Bagshawe, Constable, 1929.

Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947.

Bell, E. Moberly. Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire. Constable, 1962.

Bell, E. Moberly. Storming the Citadel. Constable, 1953.

Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.

Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.

Bryher,. Development. Constable, 1920.

Cable, Mildred et al. A Desert Journal. Constable, 1934.

Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable, 1927.

Cecil, Lord David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. Constable, 1934.

Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.

Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.

Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable.

Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. Constable, 1975.

Critchley, Thomas Alan, and P. D. James. The Maul and the Pear Tree. Constable, 1971.

Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981.

Fleming, G. H. John Everett Millais. Constable, 1998.

H. D.,. Sea Garden. Constable, 1916.

Heyer, Georgette. The Black Moth. Constable, 1921.

Hickey, Emily. “On the Makings of English Blank Verse”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.

, Constable, 1920, pp. 1002-19.