Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Boots the Chemists
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Violet Hunt | Sooner or Later received (perhaps excessively) high praise from a number of VH
's contemporaries. Marie Belloc Lowndes
(daughter of Bessie Rayner Parkes
) wrote in The Merry Wives of Westminster, 1946, that it... |
| Reception | Violet Hunt | Boots
the chemist, which operated circulating libraries in its shops, refused to the stock this novel (as it already refused VH
's Sooner or Later) because of its alleged sensationalism. Secor, Marie. “Violet Hunt, Novelist: A Reintroduction”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 19 , 1976, pp. 25-34. 29 |
| Textual Production | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
began writing a diary publishing stories and poems in her teens and continued into her adult life. I had always been writing: and for years earning a pittance to supplement my income from the... |
Timeline
1899: Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists founded...
Writing climate item
1899
Jesse Boot
of Boots the Chemists
founded the Boots Booklovers Library
, hoping to attract customers by adding a lending library to Boots
shops.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
49
Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983.
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