Spencer Curtis Brown

RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...

Pictures and Conversations, a last collection of short pieces by EB , was published posthumously in New York, edited by Spencer Curtis Brown .

NL began using the pseudonym Peter Curtis once she started writing crime novels, as she did not want to lose readers who preferred her historical fiction. She formed her masculine pseudonym by combining the name...

Having had her style criticised in her previous novel for convolution, she appealed to Spencer Curtis Brown to point out any examples in the new book, to prevent her from developing stylistic tricks; initial criticism...

She wrote this play for a performance in Limerick Cathedral. (An early version had already been given in the village church at Hambledon in Hampshire.) More important historically was a...

It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French in 1913. In March 1913 it ran at the Empire Theatre in New York under the title Jinny.GS wrote to her...

After her previous book's success, she had acquired an agent (David Higham of Curtis Brown , who also handled Rose Macaulay and Vita Sackville-West ). In later years she dealt with Spencer Curtis Brown

Theatre rights to Black Narcissus were sold within a month of its appearance. A script was commissioned in the USA which RG found farcical. Her agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , suggested that she should...

She dedicated it To Jon and the spirit of little Joss, who was born there, and used an epigraph translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley . It was in fact her sister Jon who...

RG herself had misgivings about Gypsy, Gypsy, but her publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies wrote of being enchanted by the story.Spencer Curtis Brown pointed out that it owed a debt to D. H. Lawrence

It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction). She remembered finishing it with her...

Pseudonyms, and their financial implications, ended HB 's first marriage. Armiger Barclay wanted her to write not as Sandys, under which name she reaped her own profits, but as Barcynska, which funnelled her earnings to...

By about now, says HB , a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed...

RG 's peppery agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , found it hard to take her second marriage and eventually had a fist-fight with James Haynes-Dixon outside the Ritz Grill in London. After this they did...

MR 's London agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , transferred her for this book to a younger colleague, Juliet O'Hea . O'Hea proved to be very sensitive and sympathetic to MR , and eventually became her...