"surprising had it been Mrs Stitch herself."" Mrs. Stitch Mrs. Algernon Stitch, more familiarly known as Julia Stitch, is a character created by Evelyn Waugh, best known for her role in the novel ""Scoop"". The character was inspired by Waugh's friendship with the well-connected socialite, Lady Diana Cooper. Mrs. Stitch appears as a ""fixer"", a well-connected member of British, and especially London society, who can make things happen for people. This activity is known to all as ""The Stitch Service"". In ""Scoop"", she is asked to find employment for a novelist by the name of Boot, and arranges for him"
"Basil Copper Basil Frederick Albert Copper (5 February 1924 – 3 April 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a full-time writer in 1970. In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August Derleth. Copper's interests included swimming, gardening, travel, sailing and historic film material. One of England's leading film collectors, his private archive contained almost one thousand titles (at 1977). He founded the Tunbridge Wells Vintage Film Society and often gave"
"first edition included works by Peter Fleming, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker and C. S. Forester. Later volumes featured Ray Bradbury and Lord Dunsany among others. Basil Copper made his debut in fifth volume, with the story ""The Spider"". The series also published work by Charles Birkin, R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Alex Hamilton. After volume nine, Van Thal placed a heavier reliance on new authors. The series grew in popularity and was the stepping stone for much new talent. In the 1970s, the increasingly violent content of the ""Pan Books"" provoked some controversy. In the early 1980s a slow decline in standards"
"Crime Writer's Association for over thirty years, serving as chairman in 1981/82 and on its committee for a total of seven years. At the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton, he was awarded the first WHC Lifetime Achievement Award. Basil Copper Basil Frederick Albert Copper (5 February 1924 – 3 April 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a full-time writer in 1970. In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August"
"Golden Cockerel Press The Golden Cockerel Press was a major English fine press operating between 1920 and 1961. The private press was famous for beautiful handmade limited editions of classic works produced to the very highest of standards. The type was hand-set and the books were printed on handmade paper, and sometimes on vellum. A major feature of Golden Cockerel books was the original illustrations, usually wood engravings, contributed by, among others, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland Wright, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Agnes Miller Parker, David Jones, Mark Severin, Dorothea Braby, Lettice Sandford, Gwenda Morgan, and Eric Ravilious. The press was"
"Laurence Housman - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Shane Leslie - Rose Macaulay - J. W. Mackail - John Masefield - George Meredith - Alice Meynell - T. Sturge Moore - Sir Henry Newbolt - J. B. B. Nichols - Alfred Noyes - Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch - Ernest Radford - Ada Smith - R. L. Stevenson - Arthur Symons - Francis Thompson - Herbert Trench - Katharine Tynan - William Watson - Margaret L. Woods - W. B. Yeats A. E. - Herbert Asquith - Maurice Baring - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - F."
"fissile mix, and began to break down towards the end of 1900; some colonists moves with the Doukhobors to Canada, while others went on to form the Whiteway Colony in Gloucestershire. A further group, headed by Tolstoy's literary agent, Vladimir Chertkov, moved to Tuckton near Christchurch in Dorset, where they traded as 'The Free Age Press' – producing dirt-cheap versions of Tolstoy's religious and ethical texts, for an English readership. There are three public houses, The Bell, The Fox and Hounds and The Roundbush. The Bell is a 14th-century building that was refurbished in the 16th century. The local school"
"beginning of the 20th century included Helen Allingham, Edmund Blampied, Alexander Boyd, Frank Brangwyn, Randolph Caldecott, John Charles Dollman, James H. Dowd, Godefroy Durand, Luke Fildes, Harry Furniss, John Percival Gülich, George du Maurier, Phil May, Ernest Prater, Leonard Raven-Hill, Sidney Sime, Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne), George Stampa, Edmund Sullivan, Bert Thomas, F. H. Townsend, Harrison Weir, and Henry Woods. Writers for the paper included George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard and Anthony Trollope. Malcolm Charles Salaman was employed there from 1890 to 1899. Beatrice Grimshaw travelled the South Pacific reporting on her experiences for the ""Daily Graphic"". Mary"
"of mysteries. The mapback series contains some significant first editions (""first as such"") by famous authors such as Dashiell Hammett, and interesting editions of such authors as Rex Stout ("""" #45; ""The Red Bull"" #70), Agatha Christie, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A. A. Fair, John Dickson Carr and his alter ego Carter Dickson, and Ellery Queen. There are editions of other mysteries which have stood the test of time and are still considered moderately significant today, such as the works of Phoebe Atwood Taylor (under her own name and as Alice Tilton), Patricia Wentworth, Stuart Palmer, Clayton"
"the century are: Caryl Churchill (""Top Girls"", 1982) and Alan Ayckbourn (""Absurd Person Singular"", 1972). An important new element in the world of British drama, from the beginnings of radio in the 1920s, was the commissioning of plays, or the adaption of existing plays, by BBC radio. This was especially important in the 1950s and 1960s (and from the 1960s for television). Many major British playwrights in fact, either effectively began their careers with the BBC, or had works adapted for radio. Most of playwright Caryl Churchill's early experiences with professional drama production were as a radio playwright and, starting"
"Boers were Beaten"" (1900); C.D. Haskim, ""For the Queen in South Africa"" (1900); F. Russell, ""The Boer's Blunder"" (1900); H. Nisbet, ""For Right and England"" (1900) and ""The Empire Makers"" (1900). Among the more notable literary figures of the day who were closely associated with the events of the Anglo‑Boer conflict were Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936); Winston Churchill (1874–1965); H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930); Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (1862–1931); Edgar Wallace (1875–1932); and John Buchan (1875–1940). Some of the most interesting names associated with satirising the Anglo‑Boer conflict include H.H. Munro (Saki) (""Alice in Pall Mall"", 1900); G.K."
"A. E. Housman - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Andrew Lang - Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Alfred Lyall - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - A. C. Miall - Sir Henry Newbolt - Roden Noel - Arthur O'Shaughnessy - William James Renton - T. W. Rolleston - George William Russell - William Sharp - J. K. Stephen - Algernon Charles Swinburne - John Addington Symonds - Arthur Symons - Lord De Tabley - James Thomson (B.V.) - Francis Thompson - Margaret Veley - Sir William Watson - Augusta Webster - Oscar Wilde - W. B. Yeats Also, prose by: Sir"
"Richardson, and Ezra Pound. Furthermore, Basil Bunting, born in 1901, published little until ""Briggflatts"" in 1965 and Samuel Beckett, born in Ireland in 1906, continued to produce significant works until the 1980s, though some view him as a post-modernist. Among British writers in the 1940s and 1950s were poet Dylan Thomas and novelist Graham Greene whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s, while Evelyn Waugh, W.H. Auden continued publishing into the 1960s. Postmodern literature is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and"
"Iles"" novel, ""Protection"", was televised by the BBC in 1996 as ""Harpur & Iles"", starring Aneirin Hughes as Harpur and Hywel Bennett as Iles. Dates given without parentheses are the Library of Congress publication dates, usually the first US publication, except where the books do not (yet) appear in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. The dates in parentheses are the copyright dates, taken from the actual books when available. Bill James (novelist) Bill James (born 1929) is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms ""David Craig"" and ""Judith"
"as ""Colonel Cuckoo"". Kersh is one of eight writers commemorated in Compass Road, a watch design by Crispin Jones and writer Iain Sinclair. Kersh was listed #9 in ""Time Out""'s ""Top 30 chart of London's most erotic writers"". A prolific writer, he has been described as ""hammering out twenty novels, twenty collections of short stories and thousands of articles in different publications, hacking pseudonymously as Piers England, Waldo Kellar, Mr Chickery, Joe Twist, George Munday, and others"", some of his notable publications being: In 2013 Valancourt Books began reprinting many of Kersh's titles. Gerald Kersh Gerald Kersh (1911–1968) was a"
"""gumnut babies"", Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, against the antagonist Banksia men. Gibbs' influence has lasted through the generations – contemporary children's author Ursula Dubosarsky has cited ""Snugglepot and Cuddlepie"" as one of her favourite books. In the middle of the twentieth century, children's literature languished, with popular British authors dominating the Australian market. But in the 1960s Oxford University Press published several Australian children's authors, and Angus & Robertson appointed their first specialist children's editor. The best-known writers to emerge in this period were Hesba Brinsmead, Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Patricia Wrightson, Nan Chauncy, Joan Phipson and Eleanor Spence, their works"
"late 1920s, mainly in Britain but extending to Palestine, northern India, the US, Japan, Portugal, and Morocco. They begin with fifteen-year-old Mary Russell (she was born on 2 January 1900), who runs into a middle-aged individual she realizes is, in fact, Sherlock Holmes - the former consulting detective of Baker Street, now retired to Sussex, where he keeps bees. However, in the form of Mary Russell's memoirs, Sherlock Holmes stays in the stories mostly through the influence he has in Russell's life. Laurie R. King strives to clarify this, and is quoted on her website, ""I did not write Sherlock"
"such as Wilkie Collins's ""The Woman in White"" (1859); an early example of the latter is ""The Moonstone"" (1868), again by Collins. All were often serialised in a form that gave rise to the penny dreadful magazines. Newgate novel The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the ""Newgate Calendar"", a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but usually rearranged or embellished"
"- Muriel Spark - Sir John Squire - Sir Richard Steele - James Stephens - Wallace Stevens - Anne Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson - Trumbull Stickney - William Strode - Jonathan Swift - Arthur Symons - J. M. Synge - Nahum Tate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - A. S. J. Tessimond - Dylan Thomas - Edward Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Francis Thompson - Henry Thoreau - Thomas Traherne - George Turbervile - John Updike - Mark Van Doren - Henry Vaughan - Edmund Waller - William Walsh - Vernon Watkins - Samuel Wesley - Walt Whitman -"
"Thom Gunn - Ivor Gurney - Thomas Hardy - Seamus Heaney - Anthony Hecht - Geoffrey Hill - Homer - Horace - A. E. Housman - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - Julia Ward Howe - Ted Hughes - Victor Hugo - Randall Jarrell - Samuel Johnson - David Jones - Sidney Keyes - Galway Kinnell - Rudyard Kipling - Lincoln Kirstein - Stanley Kunitz - Philip Larkin - Laurie Lee - J. B. Leishman - Denise Levertov - Alun Lewis - Sir Richard Lovelace - James Russell Lowell - Robert Lowell - Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay - George MacBeth"
"classics Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne (the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh), Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton; the controversial D. H. Lawrence; the modernist Virginia Woolf; the satirist Evelyn Waugh; the prophetic novelist George Orwell; the popular novelists W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene; the crime writer Agatha Christie (the best-selling novelist of all time); Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond); the poets T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes; the fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling; the graphic novelists Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle"
"or stories in the life of a Bow Street officer"", the earliest collection of detective stories. Colburn was a major purveyor of the fashionable novel mode of social fiction called ""Silver Fork"" after a phrase coined by William Hazlitt. The series of ""Colburn's Modern Standard Novelists"" (1835–41, 19 vols.), containing works by Thomas Campbell, Bulwer Lytton, Theodore Hook and Harrison Ainsworth, Lady Morgan, Robert Plumer Ward, Horace Smith, Marryat, Thomas Henry Lister, G. P. R. James, and George Robert Gleig. Colburn also numbered among ""my authors"" Disraeli, John Banim, and fashionable novelists of the day. He was twice married, the"
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Hogg, Charles Neaves, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, William Mudford, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh Clifford and Frank Swettenham. Robert Macnish contributed under the epithet, Modern Pythagorean. It was an open secret that Charles Whibley contributed anonymously his ""Musings without Methods"" to the Magazine for over twenty-five years. T. S. Eliot described them ""the best sustained piece of literary journalism that I know of in recent times"". In Dorothy Sayers's detective novel ""Five Red Herrings"" (1931) the Scottish Procurator-Fiscal working with Lord Peter Wimsey is mentioned as ""reading the latest number of ""Blackwood"" to while away the"
"James Branch Cabell James Branch Cabell (; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was ""the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."" Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. H. L. Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as ""really the most acidulous of"
"news that her brother Russell has been killed), and the clash of generations in their outlook on the War, are central themes. Visiting Clement in a war-hospital, Claire reflects: Set in upper middle-class Kensington and rural Derbyshire in 1920, the novel centres on the family of Sir Harold Peel ('Hal'), who appears stolid and sensible to his children but conceals from them his addiction to risk-taking on the stock-market. Lady Peel (Leila) appears silly and superficial to her children, concealing from them a core of wisdom born of Victorian thwarted love and marital compromise. The four children do not know"
"as Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1387), Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" (1605), William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759), William Makepeace Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"" (1847), as well as more recent works such as J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" (1954–1955), or Douglas Adams' ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (1979). Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's ""Lost in the Funhouse"", Robert Coover's ""The Babysitter"" and ""The Magic Poker"", Kurt Vonnegut's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", Thomas"
"Clifford Ball Clifford Ball (1896?-1947?) was an American fantasy writer whose primary distinction was having been one of the earliest post-Howard writers in the sword and sorcery subgenre of fantasy. Before dropping from sight, Ball contributed six short stories to the pulp magazine ""Weird Tales"" during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s under the editorships of Farnsworth Wright and Dorothy McIlwraith. The setting of the first three is vaguely like Howard's Hyborian Age of warring kingdoms, and features the barbarian adventurers Duar, an amnesiac king protected by a guardian sprite, and Rald, a thief and mercenary. The remaining stories"
"three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich capitalists with a fortune made in the colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Helen, and Tibby), whose cultural pursuits have much in common with the Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, an impoverished young couple from a lower-class background. The idealistic, intelligent Schlegel sisters seek to help the struggling Basts and to rid the Wilcoxes of some of their deep-seated social and economic prejudices. The Schlegels had briefly met and befriended the Wilcoxes when both families were touring Germany. Helen, the younger Schlegel daughter, then visits the"
"Erskine Caldwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Cleanth Brooks, Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Wolfe, William Styron, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, James Dickey, Willie Morris, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Charles Portis, Barry Hannah, Alice Walker, Cormac McCarthy, Anne Rice, Shelby Foote, John Grisham, Charlaine Harris, James Agee, Hunter S. Thompson, Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Harry Crews and the authors known as the Southern Agrarians. Possibly the most famous southern novel of the 20th-century is ""Gone with the Wind"" by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1937. Another famous southern"
"Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, G. K. Chesterton, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey. Others – S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the ""English"" style. Still others, such as Rex Stout, Clayton Rawson and Earl Derr Biggers, attempted a more ""American"" style. Over time, certain conventions and clichés developed which limited surprise on the part of the reader – vis-à-vis details of the plot – the identity of the murderer."
"lower middle class in novels like ""Kipps"" (1905) and ""The History of Mr Polly"" (1910). The major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce (1882–1941) and two immigrants, American Henry James (1843–1916) and Pole Joseph Conrad (1857–1924). The modernist tradition in the novel, with its emphasis ""towards the ever more minute and analytic exposition of mental life"", begins with James and Conrad, in novels such as ""The Ambassadors"" (1903), ""The Golden Bowl"" (1907) and ""Lord Jim"" (1900). Other important early modernists were Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), whose novel ""Pointed Roof"" (1915), is"
"Little, Brown in the 20th and early 21st centuries have included Nagaru Tanigawa, Donald Barthelme, Louisa M. Alcott, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Bernie Brillstein, Thornton Burgess, Hortense Calisher, Bruce Catton, A. J. Cronin, Peter De Vries, J. Frank Dobie, C. S. Forester, John Fowles, Malcolm Gladwell, Pete Hamill, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Lillian Hellman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Kissinger, Elizabeth Kostova, Norman Mailer, William Manchester, Nelson Mandela, John P. Marquand, Masters and Johnson, Stephenie Meyer, Rick Moody, Ogden Nash, Edwin O'Connor, Erich Maria Remarque, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, George Stephanopoulos, Gwyn Thomas, Gore Vidal, David Foster Wallace, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse,"
"its medieval revivalism. Arthur Clough (1819–1861) and George Meredith (1828–1909) are two other important minor poets of this era. Towards the end of the 19th century, English poets began to take an interest in French Symbolism and Victorian poetry entered a decadent ""fin-de-siècle"" phase. Two groups of poets emerged in the 1890s, the ""Yellow Book"" poets who adhered to the tenets of Aestheticism, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons and the Rhymers' Club group, that included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and Irishman William Butler Yeats. Yeats went on to become an important modernist in the 20th century."