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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...