Sidgwick and Jackson

Along with her novels MD has regularly published short stories. She edited a collection of such stories, An Anthology, in 1976.The Reunion, which first appeared in Women Writing, ed. Denys...

ES 's first play for children (based on a famous Victorian story), Thackeray 's Rose and the Ring, Dramatised in two acts, appeared in the anthology Plays for Schools, from her brother 's firm Sidgwick and Jackson .

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

Of the brothers, Frank became an author and more importantly a publisher (founder of the firm of Sidgwick and Jackson ), while Hugh became a civil servant.

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

It was published by Sidgwick and Jackson , and re-issued with Ann Lee's and Other Stories in Early Stories on 8 January 1951.

Flower of Youth was so popular that KT 's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson , printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross .

The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson , and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast) by George H. Doran ...

JK published another poetry volume, The Wicked Queen. After this her publisher, Sidgwick and Jackson , decided to discontinue its poetry list.

Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains. Two were reprinted in Catherine Reilly 's Scars Upon My Heart, 1981. Sidgwick and Jackson , who had published RM

NM says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...

PB 's third novel, The Spinner of the Years, was published by Ernest Benn , after having been rejected by Sidgwick and Jackson , her previous publisher.

In Environment, PB first introduces the fictional town of Hudley (based on Halifax), West Riding of Yorkshire, which was to be the main setting for most of her novels and short stories. The...

In another short-story volume, The War of All the Ages, published by Sidgwick and Jackson in 1915, ES included The Adventure, in which she uses her painfully acquired personal knowledge of prison to...

EB wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault at...