KM
's The Garden Party and Other Stories was published by Constable
.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
417
Reception
Katherine Mansfield
The contents of Murry's first journal edition were selected with an eye to keeping Mansfield acceptable to the public. Her biographer Alpers says it sealed her in porcelain for twenty years.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
Connolly, Terence L., editor. Alice Meynell Centenary Tribute. Bruce Humphries.
50
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
After long-drawn-out struggles with publishers over its sexual aspects, NM
succeeded in publishing (with Constable
) her first novel with a contemporary setting, We Have Been Warned.
The date is that of the Times...
Textual Features
Naomi Mitchison
NM
approached Victor Gollancz
as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
177
and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...
Publishing
Gwen Moffat
In 1998 GM
tried two new publishers: Severn House
for A Wreath of Dead Moths (about investigating the legacy of a plane crash in the mountains of Scotland soon after the second world war) and...
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM
. Difficulties with George Allen
had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable
. The...
Textual Production
Iris Murdoch
IM
's Existentialists and Mystics appeared in a festschrift: Essays and poems presented to Lord David Cecil, edited by W. W. Robson
and published by Constable
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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
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...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
LR
's Progress of Stories was published by the Seizin Press
and Constable
(who now agreed to distribute books with the Seizin imprint), bearing the date of 1935.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
280 and n30
Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland.
51-4
Textual Production
Laura Riding
LR
used the pseudonym Madeleine Vara (which had already appeared on the first number of Epilogue: A Critical Summary) for her Convalescent Conversations, published like her previous book by Seizin
and Constable
.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
281
Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland.
55
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...
Textual Production
Evelyn Sharp
ES
published Nicolete, A Novel. For this she used a different publisher, Constable
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Texts
Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable, 1934.
Jameson, Storm. The Pot Boils. Constable, 1919.
Jameson, Storm. Three Kingdoms. Constable, 1926.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. A Silent Joy. Constable, 1992.
Jesse, F. Tennyson, and Harold Marsh Harwood. London Front. Constable, 1940.
Jesse, F. Tennyson. The Dragon in the Heart. Constable, 1956.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
Jullian, Philippe. Oscar Wilde. Translator Wyndham, Violet, Constable, 1969.
Lavin, Mary. A Family Likeness and Other Stories. Constable, 1985.
Lavin, Mary. A Memory and Other Stories. Constable, 1972.
Lavin, Mary. Happiness and Other Stories. Constable, 1969.
Lavin, Mary. In the Middle of the Fields and Other Stories. Constable, 1967.
Lavin, Mary. The Stories of Mary Lavin. Constable, 1985.
Macaulay, Rose. Three Days. Constable, 1919.
Macaulay, Rose. What Not: A Prophetic Comedy. Constable, 1918.
MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985.
Mansfield, Katherine. Bliss and Other Stories. Constable, 1920.
Mansfield, Katherine. Something Childish and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable, 1924, http://U of A HSS.
Mayor, Flora Macdonald. The Squire’s Daughter. Constable, 1929.
Meynell, Alice. Ceres’ Runaway. Constable, 1909.
Miles, Susan. Blind Men Crossing a Bridge. Constable, 1934.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Fourth Pig. Constable, 1936.
Moffat, Gwen. Gone Feral. Constable, 2007.
Moore, Edith Mary. A Wilful Widow. Constable, 1913.
Murdoch, Iris. “Existentialists and Mystics”. Essays and Poems Presented to Lord David Cecil, edited by William Wallace Robson, Constable, 1970.
