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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Beryl Bainbridge | After BB
's affair with Clive de Pass
ended, she allowed herself to become emotionally entangled with Colin Haycraft
, her publisher at Duckworth. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 391 |
Friends, Associates | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
re-met Anna Haycraft
by chance (some of their children were friends). Colin Haycraft
was reputedly a misogynist who believed that non-fiction should be written by men and fiction by women, and on one occasion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beryl Bainbridge | The married couple Colin Haycraft
and Alice Thomas Ellis
(herself a writer) both worked at Gerald Duckworth
publishers, and met BB
while she was working there as a clerk. They taught her to write properly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beryl Bainbridge | In Watson's Apology, published in November 1984, BB
based a historical novel on actual documents dating from December 1844 to 1884, about events which took place at Stockwell in Surrey. Reciprocal hatred and... |
Literary responses | Beryl Bainbridge | Critics found this novel hard to handle; many were impressed by its undeniable brilliance, while puzzled as to its aims and methods. Oddly, a number of them stated that the story is told from the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was by now a highly marketable commodity as novelists go. Her recent three-book publishing agreement brought her £78,000 up front—almost certainly less than she could have got by bargaining, and even called by... |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
began working as a part-time clerk for the publishing firm Gerald Duckworth
, where Colin Haycraft
and his wife Anna (the writer Alice Thomas Ellis
) provided invaluable advice for her writing career. Anna... |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | With her publishers, Duckworth
, in financial difficulties in 1989, exacerbated by embarking on misconceived and expensive publicity schemes, BB
often acted as go-between for Colin Haycraft
and his potential, competing backers Roger Shashoua
and... |
Publishing | Penelope Fitzgerald | This was her last book to be published by Duckworth
, so it must have been after this that she felt Duckworth were trying to drop her. Proudly, she dropped them first, and rejected overtures... |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | Hodder and Stoughton
turned it down, then Chapman and Hall
, then Chatto and Windus
, all with words of encouragement which BB
felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | The front featured a photographed, fictional picture of the bottling plant with figures including BB
and a disguised Colin Haycraft
. Clapp, Susannah. “The Buffalo in the Hall”. London Review of Books, Vol. 39 , No. 1, 25 Jan. 2017, pp. 9-10. 9 King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 358-9 |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | This was the first book she had published since the death of Colin Haycraft
and after a determined attempt had been made to lure her away from Duckworth
to |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
commemorated Colin Haycraft
in an essay titled Mr Chips in a book of tributes to him, Colin Haycraft: Maverick Publisher, 1995. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 438 |
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