Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Grant Richards
Standard Name: Richards, Grant
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | 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: |
| 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. 462 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 | |
| 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... |
| 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. 153n9 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. |
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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