She loved speed. She owned a car, and loved to drive fast (she was once convicted of careless driving after a car crash in which Gerald O'Donovan suffered head injuries), and she had always wanted...
Material Conditions of Writing
Angela Thirkell
She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton
, encouraged her, and when she...
Publishing
Angela Thirkell
About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT
showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas
told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in...
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Before the book was published, and while her husband was suffering his final illness, she was, as always, financially destitute. By February 1966, her editor Diana Athill
, her publisher André Deutsch
, and publisher...
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
RM
published Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal, a work which Hamish HamiltonHamish Hamilton
had commissioned her to write in the Spring of 1947.
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Textual Features
Angela Thirkell
High Rising introduces the character of Laura Morland, a thriller-writer who does not take her art too seriously and who crops up in AT
's later Barchester series in one novel after another. Thirkell called...
Textual Production
Angela Thirkell
Thirkell began writing this book late in 1934 (under pressure of anxiety because her first husband, James Campbell McInnes
, was back in England from Canada for the first time in years). To her publisher,...
Violence
Jean Rhys
As their lives became more pinched for cash, JR
became depressed and physically abusive, battering Tilden-Smith and inflicting scratches, black eyes, and bloody wounds on his face. His principal employer, publisher Hamish Hamilton
, attempted...
Timeline
1931: Hamish Hamilton established his own publishing...
Writing climate item
1931
Hamish Hamilton
established his own publishing house at 90 Great Russell Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.