Constable

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Employer Helen Waddell
Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Employer Rose Macaulay
After the war, RM went to work as a reader of fiction for the Constable publishing house, who shortly afterwards published her books What Not and Three Days.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
178
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
139
Employer Helen Waddell
In Michaelmas Term 1926 HW had a second public academic success with an immensely popular course of lectures, contributed to the Oxford University programme by Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) , under the title The Wandering...
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Waddell
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kyllmann
Friends, Associates Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ 's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable publishing family, John Ruffini , and Vernon Lee .
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
cxlvii
Literary responses F. Tennyson Jesse
The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers.
qtd. in
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
213
In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...
Other Life Event Helen Waddell
During the second world war Constable 's publishing office, where HW still worked, was bombed but quickly repaired.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
152, 154
Her own house twice suffered damage from bombing: in 1944 and 1945. On the first...
Publishing Jean Rhys
Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape , turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion.Constable finally agreed...
Publishing Anne Grant
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
After long-drawn-out struggles with publishers over its sexual aspects, NM succeeded in publishing (with Constable ) her first novel with a contemporary setting, We Have Been Warned.
The date is that of the Times...
Publishing Helen Waddell
The book was related to her highly successful lecture series of the same title given at Oxford the previous year, under the auspices of Lady Margaret Hall , and based on research in the Bibliothèque Nationale
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
In 1942 to July 1943 she was working on (and completed) a novel called Never and Always, set in a seaside town, in which the central female character, Emily Hemingway, in her early thirties...
Publishing Elizabeth Inchbald
The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...
Publishing Gwen Moffat
In 1998 GM tried two new publishers: Severn House for A Wreath of Dead Moths (about investigating the legacy of a plane crash in the mountains of Scotland soon after the second world war) and...
Publishing Muriel Spark
The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress . The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS set about revising it...

Timeline

1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...

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1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 17

January 1873: Women were recruited for compositors' jobs...

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January 1873

Women were recruited for compositors' jobs during the Scottish printers' strike which had begun 15 November 1872.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
41-3

Texts

Acland, Alice. Caroline Norton. Constable, 1948.
Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable, 1957.
Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.
Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont in 1674. Editor Harrison, George Bagshawe, Constable, 1929.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947.
Bell, E. Moberly. Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire. Constable, 1962.
Bell, E. Moberly. Storming the Citadel. Constable, 1953.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.
Bryher,. Development. Constable, 1920.
Cable, Mildred et al. A Desert Journal. Constable, 1934.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable, 1927.
Cecil, Lord David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. Constable, 1934.
Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable.
Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. Constable, 1975.
Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. Constable, 1975.
Critchley, Thomas Alan, and P. D. James. The Maul and the Pear Tree. Constable, 1971.
Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981.
Fleming, G. H. John Everett Millais. Constable, 1998.
H. D.,. Sea Garden. Constable, 1916.
Heyer, Georgette. The Black Moth. Constable, 1921.
Hickey, Emily. “On the Makings of English Blank Verse”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
88
, Constable, 1920, pp. 1002-19.