Hodder and Stoughton

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Edith Mary Moore
Even before publication, Hodder and Stoughton called this novel almost perfect of its kind and said that they were proud to issue it.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(22 March 1917): 135
Later they advertised it as not only a...
Material Conditions of Writing Emmuska Baroness Orczy
She wondered whether it would be appropriate to go on publishing frivolous, pleasure-giving books in wartime, but was assured by her publishers, Hodder and Stoughton , that it was, and that they would need the...
Publishing Ruby M. Ayres
The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
EMM made yet another change of publisher when she issued her extraordinary novel Teddy R. N. D. through Hodder and Stoughton , priced at five shillings.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(12 April 1917): 175
Publishing Rosemary Sutcliff
RS chose the England of King Arthur for an adult novel entitled Sword at Sunset, which her new publishers, Hodder and Stoughton , advertised as her greatest novel.
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3200 (28 June 1963): 469
Publishing Georgette Heyer
It was in this year that GH signed contracts with Heinemann for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton for four detective stories.
qtd. in
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 29-30.
29
This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
191
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
For the first time in her career, EMM used the same publisher again after several years: her novel The Blind Marksman (apparently her last) was issued by Hodder and Stoughton at seven shillings and sixpence...
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 Rosemary Sutcliff
RS also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
Publishing Norah Lofts
This was published in London by Hodder and Stoughton in 1958, but the US edition was the first to appear.
Publishing Mary Stewart
This work was serialized in Woman's Journal before book publication. An American edition appeared in 1955.
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2769 (25 February 1955): 124
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
MS took her title from a folk-song which runs: Madam, will you walk? /...
Publishing Catherine Carswell
The Hodder and Stoughton reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC replied defiantly...
Publishing Mary Stewart
Having always wanted to write a historical novel, MS later recalled that the idea for The Crystal Cave came from a story in an early history of King Arthur : Geoffrey of Monmouth 's twelfth-century...
Publishing Richmal Crompton
In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC , some of which were...
Publishing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
SACD (with the help of scholar Leslie Curnow ) published The History of Spiritualism in two volumes, dedicated to Sir Oliver Lodge . For this book he switched from Hodder and Stoughton to Cassell ...

Timeline

June 1868: The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton...

Writing climate item

June 1868

The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton was founded at 17 Paternoster Row, London, by Matthew Henry Hodder and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 142

1939: The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers...

Writing climate item

1939

The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers William Collins , Macmillan , Heinemann , and Hodder and Stoughton .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
244

1944: Hodder and Stoughton, along with Alan Bott...

Writing climate item

1944

Hodder and Stoughton , along with Alan Bott of the Book Society , founded Pan Books Limited , with Aubrey Forshaw as the managing director.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
244
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
90

1965: Hodder and Stoughton published The Grand-Daughter...

Women writers item

1965

Hodder and Stoughton published The Grand-Daughter by Helen Foley .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1973: Helen Foley's novel entitled The Pitcher...

Women writers item

1973

Helen Foley 's novel entitled The Pitcher Plant was released by Hodder and Stoughton .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Texts

The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
Allingham, Margery. Blackkerchief Dick. Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.
Allingham, Margery. The Case of the Late Pig. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Allingham, Margery. The Return of Mr. Campion. Editor Morpurgo, Jack Eric, Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.
Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
Avery, Gillian. Nineteenth Century Children. Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
Ayres, Ruby M. Dark Gentleman. Hodder and Stoughton, 1953.
Ayres, Ruby M. Life Steps In. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Ayres, Ruby M. Love Without Wings. Hodder and Stoughton, 1953.
Ayres, Ruby M. One Woman Too Many. Hodder and Stoughton, 1952.
Ayres, Ruby M. Richard Chatterton, V.C. Hodder and Stoughton, 1915.
Ayres, Ruby M. Silver Wedding. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Ayres, Ruby M. Wynne of Windwhistle. Hodder and Stoughton, 1926.
Balfour, Frances. Ne obliviscaris. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930, 2 vols.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Auld Licht Idylls. Hodder and Stoughton, 1888.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Dear Brutus. Uniform ed., Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Mary Rose. Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.
Barrie, Sir J. M., and F. D. Bedford. Peter and Wendy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Peter Pan. Uniform Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Barrie, Sir J. M., and Arthur Rackham. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.
Barrie, Sir J. M. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.
Barrie, Sir J. M. The Little White Bird. Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.
Barrie, Sir J. M. What Every Woman Knows. Hodder and Stoughton, 1918.
Bell, Eva Mary. A Servant When He Reigneth. Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.