Grant Richards

Standard Name: Richards, Grant

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ada Leverson
AL 's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air:
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Max Beerbohm , Aubrey Beardsley , Henry Harland (editor of the...
Literary responses Ada Leverson
In the 1930s her publisher, Grant Richards , said of her novels that the world should not let [them] die, so truly do they mirror their years.
qtd. in
Speedie, Julie. Arthur Machen and The Sphinx. Tartarus, 1992.
Performance of text James Joyce
JJ 's play, Exiles, published by Grant Richards in 1918, had an unsuccessful first performance (in German) in Munich.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Parker, Alan. James Joyce: A Bibliography of His Writings, Critical Material, and Miscellanea. F. W. Faxon, 1948.
37
Publishing George Egerton
GE 's publishing relationship with Lane ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head 's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards (who like her had published in...
Textual Features Ada Leverson
AL was encouraged to write novels by Grant Richards .
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
133
She set them in Edwardian Mayfair: Burkhart compares her depiction of London to that of Dublin by Joyce .
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
38
Textual Production Ada Leverson
AL published her first novel, The Twelfth Hour: for all her novels the publisher was Grant Richards .Grant Richards
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
137-8
Textual Production Ada Leverson
AL wrote a five-page introduction to Whom You Should Marry, by an American gentleman (Grant Richards ), which advises on different personalities shaped by season of birth.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
82
Speedie, Julie. Arthur Machen and The Sphinx. Tartarus, 1992.
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...
Textual Production A. E. Housman
He wrote most of these poems very rapidly in the first five months of 1895, originally planning to use the pseudonym Terence Hearsay. Macmillan had rejected the book before Kegan Paul accepted it. The...

Timeline

1 January 1897: Grant Richards, who had been an assistant...

Writing climate item

1 January 1897

Grant Richards , who had been an assistant editor on W. T. Stead 's Review of Reviews, founded his own publishing house at 9 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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