EF
published with Hutchinson
in 1973 (the same year as her third novel, The Glass Alembic) a poetry volume entitled The Celebrants, from which Fleur Adcock
selected the poem Lais for The Faber...
Dedications
Maureen Duffy
MD
published with HutchinsonLyrics for the Dog Hour, a book of poems, headed with an address in Latin to Death and a dedication in Italian to Anadyomene.
Anadyomene, meaning I rise from the...
Material Conditions of Writing
Susan Hill
SH
issued her second novel, Do Me a Favour, another very early work, written as an undergraduate and published, like her first, with Hutchinson
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
326
Already in 1871, ostensibly the year of its book publication, two other London publishers, Gall and Inglis
Publishing
Ada Cambridge
AC
signed a contract with Hutchinson
on 4 February 1904. She received an advance of £75 that was desperately needed.
Tate, Audrey. Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work, 1844-1926. Melbourne University Press, 1991.
195
Publishing
Emmuska Baroness Orczy
Her next romance, Will-o-the-Wisp, for which she had a contract with Hutchinson
, she set aside from despair of being able to get it to the publisher. It finally appeared in the year of her death.
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.
214-15
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Publishing
Barbara Cartland
BC
wrote seven more novels during the next decade.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
166
Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth
, then Hutchinson
. When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn
.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
167-8
Publishing
Elaine Feinstein
EF
's next poetry volume, City Music, full of personal poems about the passage of time, was the last she published with Hutchinson
before the axing of their poetry list.
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Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
226
Publishing
Katharine Bruce Glasier
Writing this book helped KBG
enormously in coming to terms with her grief over her son's death. The first edition was said to have sold out rapidly and is now very rare. In a new...
Publishing
Mary Cowden Clarke
In her preface to the new edition published by A. C. Armstrong
of New York in 1891, MCC
wrote that these tales were written in all the glow of having finished the sixteen years' labor...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
SG
had begun writing the novel by 1898, as a serial very quickly, before Ideala.
qtd. in
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
103
The New York edition had illustrations by Arthur I. Keller
.The book was not published in Britain until...
Publishing
Rebecca West
The Modern "Rake's Progress", with words by RW
and paintings by David Low
, was published by Hutchinson
.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
10
West, Rebecca, and David Low. The Modern "Rake’s Progress". Hutchinson, 1934, http://UofA.
Publishing
Michelene Wandor
In 1990 MW
published a larger collection with Hutchinson
in England and Random Century
in the USA under the same title as the 1984 volume: Gardens of Eden: Selected Poems. A second collection, with...
Publishing
Violet Trefusis
VT
and Philippe Jullian
collaborated on Memoirs of an Armchair, the translation of Jullian' Mémoires d'une bergère, a fantasy about a Tilliard
chair that observes a variety of historical and fictional events over...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
NJ
's novel Strange Beginning was published by Robert Hale
after, to her extreme displeasure, her faithful agent Raymond Savage
informed her that Hutchinson
no longer wanted her on their list.
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29 December 1940: St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an...
National or international item
29 December 1940
St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...
1954: Five books were the subject of obscenity...
Writing climate item
1954
Five books were the subject of obscenity prosecutions in England: Walter Baxter
's The Image and the Search, Vivian Connell
's September in Quinze, Charles McGraw
's The Man in Control,...
Texts
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918. Hutchinson, 1968.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia. Married to Tolstoy. Hutchinson, 1960.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia, editor. The Ghost Book. Hutchinson, 1926.
Bainbridge, Beryl. A Weekend With Claude. Hutchinson, 1967.
Bainbridge, Beryl. Another Part of the Wood. Hutchinson, 1968.
Beer, Patricia. Moon’s Ottery. Hutchinson, 1978.
Beer, Patricia. Selected Poems. Hutchinson, 1979.
Beer, Patricia. The Lie of the Land. Hutchinson, 1983.
Beer, Patricia. The Star Cross Ferry. Hutchinson, 1999.
Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Her life and Letters (1689-1762). Hutchinson, 1925.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
Bowen, Marjorie. The Man with the Scales. Hutchinson, 1954.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson, 1910.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Mary. Hutchinson, 1916.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Rose of Life. Hutchinson, 1905.
Brain, Robert. The Decorated Body. Hutchinson, 1979.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Comedy in Spasms. Hutchinson, 1895.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Quaker Grandmother. Hutchinson, 1896.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Yellow Aster. Hutchinson, 1894, 3 vols.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Children of Circumstance. Hutchinson, 1894, 3 vols.