Bodley Head

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Textual Production Michael Field
Only 400 copies were printed by Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane for Bodley Head .
Field, Michael. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough. Editors Thornton, R. K. R. and Ian Small, Woodstock Books, 1993.
prelims
Textual Production Rumer Godden
Bodley Head issued RG 's A Letter to the World: poems for young readers: a selection from the work of Emily Dickinson (a poet she had discovered with, she said, instant recognition).
The...
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer 's fictionalised biography My Lord John was published posthumously by the Bodley Head .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
209
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
It was published under the same title by the Bodley Head in London by October 1930.
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 70. Gale Research, 1988.
70: 270
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1499 (23 October 1930): 849
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
John Lane of Bodley Head gave RMW a birthday present by publishing her fifth collection of poetry, After Sunset, on this day (bearing a date of 1904).
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55.
148
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
Bodley Head issued the first volume of NM 's autobiography, Small Talk: Memoirs of an Edwardian Childhood.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
183
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
Other plays followed. The Rocklitz was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 4 February 1931, having been published in 1930 by the Bodley Head in London and by Dodd, Mead (as...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson were posthumously published by John Lane at the Bodley Head .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, 1912, p. vii - ix.
ix
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot), was published in London by John Lane at Bodley Head and copyrighted as 1920.
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte, 1984.
9-10
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC contributed a volume, Great Men of Yorkshire (West Riding), to Bodley Head 's Men of the Counties series of collected biographies.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1145
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
The same year as her book about historic houses, RS published a work which was much more a labour of love: Rudyard Kipling, in the Bodley Head 's series of monographs on writers for...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
John Lane of the Bodley Head (publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain...
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
RS published through the Bodley HeadSun Horse, Moon Horse, a historical novel for young people set in Iron Age Britain, with decorations by Shirley Felts . Her hero this time is Lubrin Dhu...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .
The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
EDA published through the Bodley Head her single novel (or, at seventeen chapters, perhaps a novella). The title originally projected, Poor Human Nature, was apparently changed to The Bishop's Dilemma when Grant Richards issued...

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Spark, Muriel. Loitering with Intent. Bodley Head, 1981.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Rudyard Kipling. Bodley Head, 1960.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Parent. Bodley Head, 1952.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Woman. Bodley Head, 1951.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head, 1950.