Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
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Publishing | Agatha Christie | It was rejected by six publishers before Lane
contracted for it, paying AC
no advance or royalties until two thousand five hundred copies had been sold. She earned £25 in all from this edition. The... |
Publishing | Victoria Cross | VC
began her literary career by sending manuscripts of the novel The Refiner's Fire and short story Different Views to publisher John Lane
. Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 16 |
Publishing | George Egerton | After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 28 |
Publishing | Victoria Cross | Little of the critical speculation about the genealogy of The Woman Who Didn't has been confirmed. Charlotte Mitchell
posits that the risqué subject matter of the novel VC
produced after signing a contract with Lane |
Publishing | George Egerton | Her friendship with Lane
, who published this collection, began to sour over the course of its writing. In a letter to him on 10 November 1896, GE
acknowledged that the volume might not be... |
Publishing | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She had entered negotiations with Lane
about the book's publication in January 1902: although she was keen for her friend to publish the book, she threatened in a letter to make an abrupt change of... |
Publishing | George Egerton | GE
's publishing relationship with Lane
ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head
's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards
(who like her had published in... |
Publishing | Florence Farr | |
Publishing | James Joyce | JJ
learned that Ulysses would not be prosecuted in England, and an agreement was struck with John Lane
to publish. Because of printers' protests against some passages, the book did not appear until 1936. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press. 653 |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | Poet and editor W. E. Henley
, printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 |
Publishing | Ethel Savi | John Lane
asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks
(herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES
should rewrite her manuscript. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 164 M. P. Willcocks was... |
Publishing | George Egerton | John Lane
published GE
's first translation: Ola Hansson
's allegorical prose poems entitled Young Ofeg's Ditties, Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 97 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | Prevented by her eyesight from pursuing a career in art, she turned to writing, setting out with stories for magazines. Her low output has been attributed to her being indolent or a procrastinator or both.... |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Victoria Cross | Reviews of Theodora were mixed. Janet Hogarth
, in a Fortnightly Review article titled Literary Degenerates, and B. A. Crackanthorpe
in Nineteenth Century, criticised the story's representation of sexual desire. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 135 |
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