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Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...

By 1 May 1917 she was a publisher's apprentice to Basil Blackwell in Oxford. Her father had arranged the job for her, and she was paid £2 a week. She left this job in...

ME 's first commission as an illustrator was for thirty pen-and-ink drawings and the dustjacket for Tales from the Panchatantra, translated from Sanskrit by Alfred Williams and published by Basil Blackwell .

Its early extant draft shows how much this novel changed in the course of revision towards its final form. Its autobiographical origins are reflected in the fact that ME sometimes by accident wrote Peggy for...

To finish writing it, she moved temporarily out of the family home to stay alone at a country pub some three miles away. She dedicated it to her father (explaining that he does not...

After this ME worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance...

The journal passages, stretching back as far as early 1939, were extensively revised. Some had appeared in their new form in Life and Letters in 1940-1. ME planned to illustrate the book with a series...

She said of her poems that they flash through my head in the middle of the night or the early morning, with a great urgency. In 1945 she sought release from...

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

KG 's A Lesser Child: An Autobiography, dedicated For my Family: Past, Present, Future, and prefaced with a quotation from George Santayana , was posthumously published.

SJ published a one-act play, Full Circle, with Basil Blackwell in 1929. In 1950 she published her teleplay William the Defeated in The Book of PEN, edited by Hermon Ould . She issued...

It had been listed the year before as Zones of Love and Terror, published by House of Stratus , a newly launched firm issuing mainly well-known titles as print-on-demand.

MC published through Blackwell her first volume of poetry, In War Time, Poems (probably adding the last word because her title had been used several times before).

It was published by B. H. Blackwell , in their series Adventurers All, a series of young poets unknown to fame.

AO published through Basil BlackwellTelling the Truth about Jerusalem: A Collection of Essays and Poems (on the same date as another collection with Juliet Mitchell ).