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Publishing Dorothy Richardson
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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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
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Edwin Björkman wrote the introduction...
Publishing Penelope Fitzgerald
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.
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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.
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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.
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Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
It was published that year by Duckworth .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF published with DuckworthSome Do Not—, the first novel in his Parade's End tetralogy about the First World War.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1962.
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Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM published her short biography Milton for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Textual Production Elinor Glyn
EG 's romance novelThe Career of Katherine Bush appeared from Duckworth in London the year after Appleton had published it in the USA.
Dalton, Frederick Thomas. “Review of The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 795, 12 Apr. 1917, p. 176.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson, 1968.
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Textual Production Carola Oman
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, 12 June 1978, p. 16.
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Texts

Goudge, Elizabeth. A City of Bells. Duckworth, 1936.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Island Magic. Duckworth, 1934.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and C. Walter Hodges. Sister of the Angels. Duckworth, 1939.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and C. Walter Hodges. Smoky-House. Duckworth, 1940.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Bird in the Tree. Duckworth, 1940.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Castle on the Hill. Duckworth, 1942.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Three Plays. Duckworth, 1939.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Towers in the Mist. Duckworth, 1938.
Goudge, Elizabeth. White Wings. Duckworth, 1952.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Dead Yesterday. Duckworth, 1916.
Hamnett, Nina, and Osbert Sitwell. The People’s Album of London Statues. Duckworth, 1928.
Hollis, Christopher. Dryden. Duckworth, 1933.
Honore, Tony. Sex Law. Duckworth, 1978.
Jacob, Naomi. Look at the Clock: A Yorkshire Novel. Duckworth, 1939.
Jaeger, Muriel. Hermes Speaks. Duckworth, 1933.
Jaeger, Muriel. Retreat from Armageddon. Duckworth, 1936.
Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, 1930, pp. 19-49.
Lyttelton, Edith. Peter’s Chance. Duckworth, 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Milton. Duckworth, 1934.
Meyer, Adèle Levis, and Clementina Black. Makers of Our Clothes: A Case for the Trade Boards. Duckworth, 1909.
Oman, Carola. Prince Charles Edward. Duckworth, 1935.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Historic Nuns. Duckworth, 1898.
Richardson, Dorothy. Backwater. Duckworth, 1916.
Richardson, Dorothy. Dawn’s Left Hand. Duckworth, 1931.
Richardson, Dorothy. Deadlock. Duckworth, 1921.