George Doran

AB landed in New York City to hit a version of the American lecture tour circuit; his publisher, George Doran , claimed that no other visitor from Europe had had such a welcome since Dickens .

For over fifty years PB was a prolific contributor to periodicals: of reviews, short stories, historical sketches, and more. In about 1920 she began reviewing for the Yorkshire Observer, and in 1929, after being...

PB attended a deliciously literary dinner party at J. B. Priestley 's Hampstead home, where she met Thornton Wilder , George Doran and A. D. Peters (who was soon to become her literary agent).