Largely through the efforts of HSW
, Ben Huebsch
printed James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for the Egoist Press
, as the firm's inaugural publication.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
128
Publishing
Rumer Godden
A Breath of Air by RG
was published by Michael Joseph
(to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan
) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis
but approbation...
Publishing
Rumer Godden
It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
69-70
It was the last novel owed to Little Brown
under RG
's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
Publishing
Willa Muir
These were Edwin's earliest books as well as Willa's: his First Poems were published the year after this. The Hauptmann edition had begun to appear in 1913 and volume nine was finally added in 1929...
Publishing
Willa Muir
Edwin Muir had contacted Huebsch
about translating this novel in December 1925, and Huebsch agreed, asking for the translation to be done by next May.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
122
Though the Muirs had selected and solicited the translation...
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
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...