Emmeline Pethick (later EPL
) contributed an essay on Working Girls' Clubs to Will Reason
's University and Social Settlements, which appeared in Methuen
's Social Questions of To-Day series.
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963.
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Anthologization
Deborah Levy
The Magdalena Project (https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/) is an international cross-cultural network facilitating production, visibility, and critical discussion of theatre and performance by women. The play has an all-female cast, described on the playwrights website doollee.com (which mistakenly...
Anthologization
Pam Gems
The play was revived under the new title at London's Hampstead Theatre
in December of the same year.
Lloyd Evans, Gareth, and Barbara Lloyd-Evans, editors. Plays in Review, 1956-1980: British Drama and the Critics. Methuen, 1985.
221
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
160
It was published on its own in 1977, then reprinted in Methuen
's first...
Literary responses
Pam Gems
Although the play seemed to be well received during the previews, it received a bad press on opening night.
Gems, Pam. “Putting on the Style”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1984, pp. 47-8.
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In his review for Plays and Players, Charles Spencer
described it as an intense...
Performance of text
Louise Page
LP
's comedy Diplomatic Wives premiered at WatfordPalace Theatre
; its publication by Methuen
was timed to coincide with this event.
Page, Louise. Diplomatic Wives. Methuen, 1989.
prelims
Publishing
Margaret Roberts
MR
's final book, appeared (as by the author of Madmoiselle Mori): a study of Saint Catherine of Siena
and Her Times, which was commissioned from her by Methuen
when she was over seventy.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
16
Publishing
Julia Frankau
As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes
to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF
feared in 1911 that Methuen
would...
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's novel The End of her Honeymoon appeared. Although it had by January 1915 made the publishers enough money to cover the author's advance, she decided that this would be her last work from Methuen
.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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Publishing
Edna Lyall
EL
issued Derrick Vaughan, Novelist, a novel with perhaps some admixture of autobiography. It was serialised in Murray's Magazine before appearing as a volume from the new firm of Methuen
, costing 2s.6d.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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Publishing
Louise Page
It was issued in print in 1986, collaboratively by the Women's Playhouse Trust
and Methuen
, inaugurating this innovative joint publishing venture. The edition has the Old Vic
programme bound into its centre.
Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust, 1986.
between 22 and 23
Publishing
Edna Lyall
Dedicated to her dear friend Mary Davies
(chief songstress of Wales),
This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC
had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay
(her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere
.
As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is...
Publishing
Michelene Wandor
The volume was rejected by several major play publishers, including Methuen
, before the socialist Journeyman Press
agreed to take it.
Wandor, Michelene. “Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s”. Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 53-68.
63
The collection includes MW
's own Care and Control, as well as...
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
This went through a number of editions, including one from Methuen
in 1985.
Publishing
B. M. Croker
Having already clocked up four different London publishers, BMC
issued Angel: A Sketch in Indian Ink through another one, Methuen
. She went on to use several more publishing firms after this.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
36575 (2 October 1901): 6
Timeline
June 1889: Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman founded...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
211
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1980: The Women's Playhouse Trust was founded to...
Women writers item
1980
The Women's Playhouse Trust
was founded to improve opportunities in the theatre for women writers, directors, designers, administrators, technicians and actresses,
Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust, 1986.
between 22 and 23
building on feminist fringe activity but within the mainstream.
Carlson, Susan. Women and Comedy: rewriting the British theatrical tradition. University of Michigan Press, 1991.
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Texts
Allatini, Rose. Oracle. Methuen, 1937.
Baker, Elizabeth. “Chains”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 79-131.
Baldwin, Louisa. Afterglow. Methuen, 1911.
Behn, Aphra. Five Plays. Editor Duffy, Maureen, Methuen, 1990.
Behn, Aphra, and Maureen Duffy. Oroonoko and Other Stories. Methuen, 1986.
Bellerby, Frances. Come to an End. Methuen, 1939.
Bennett, Arnold. Clayhanger. Methuen, 1910.
Bensusan, Inez. “The Apple”. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 139-54.
Bowen, Marjorie. William Hogarth. Methuen, 1936.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Anne Mauleverer. Methuen, 1899.
Cambridge, Ada. Thirty Years in Australia. Methuen, 1903.
Castle, Terry. Masquerade and Civilisation. Methuen, 1986.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985.
Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Revised and Re-issued Edition in the Methuen Modern Play Series, Methuen, 1990.
Churchill, Caryl. Softcops. Methuen, 1984.
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Revised, Post-Production Edition, Methuen, 1984.
Cobban, Alan B. The Medieval Universities: Their Development and and Organization. Methuen, 1975.
Conrad, Joseph. Chance. Methuen, 1914.
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. Methuen, 1907.
Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Methuen, 1911.
Conrad, Joseph. Victory. Methuen, 1915.
Corelli, Marie. "Temporal Power". Methuen, 1902.
Corelli, Marie. Barabbas. Methuen, 1893, 3 vols.
Corelli, Marie. Love—and the Philosopher. Methuen, 1923.
