When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested...
Publishing
Elizabeth Goudge
She compiled a list of publishers and sent the manuscript out on its rounds. She later wrote that Duckworth
, who accepted it, was the publishing firm to which she owed the greatest debt, because...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with...
Publishing
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton
changed her publisher to Duckworth
(from Heinemann
) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.
Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, 18 May 1916, p. 236.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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Publishing
George Egerton
She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
She composed this work as an amusement and distraction for her husband, during the illness of which he died two years later.
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, 3 May 2000, p. 22.
22
She made some cuts at the instigation of her then publisher, Duckworth
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
H. G. Wells
offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth
, as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by...
Publishing
Storm Jameson
This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth
and Fisher Unwin
before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir
at Constable
. Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband
's...
Residence
Clemence Dane
During the 1930s CD
lived in a flat in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, in a building which for years housed the offices of Duckworth
the publishers.
Jones, Jonathan. “The body in the river”. The Guardian, Vol.
saturday review
, 14 Aug. 1999, p. 5.
5
Later, she lived above a greengrocer's shop...
Textual Production
D. H. Lawrence
Duckworth
published DHL
's The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
The same year as her final historical novel—about the Young Pretender—CO
chose the same person as subject for her earliest historical biography, Prince Charles Edward, written for Duckworth
's Great Lives series.