Posted by John Wilson on August 06, 2011 at 15:33:21 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: Robert Louis Stevenson posted by Robin Marshall on August 04, 2011 at 16:40:11:
A book on RLS is mentioned in Brogan’s biography of AR as a possible next book after his book on Poe in 1910. He had a commission to write another book for Secker, the only commission he had. Then Secker proposed Wilde, and in 1912 after he had finished Wilde AR dropped Secker as a publisher in favour of the dodgy publisher Charles Granville (publishing as Stephen Swift). Brogan says Secker was a good publisher, but Granville had offered him a guaranteed steady income (promises, promises).