In 1929 Random House
of New York printed 475 copies of HD's single-sheet, four-page poem, Red Roses for Bronze—which was also the title of her collection (nearly 150 pages) published in London by Chatto and Windus
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Laura Riding
Though LR
had recently been publishing prose works in the USA as well as at London, she had issued no book of poems there since The Close Chaplet twelve years before.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
320
This volume...
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Maya Angelou
The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King
and the success of MA
's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House
suggested...
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Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
100
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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James Joyce
In 1933 Bennett Cerf
and Random House
agreed to publish an American edition of Ulysses. A trial was required.
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Evelyn Sharp
It was reprinted about 1915 as What Happened at Christmas to Nancy, Pat, Elfie and Baby, then re-issued by Children's Classics
in New York in 1991, by Random House Value Publishing
in 1995, and...
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Maya Angelou
In 1994 Angelou's publisher, Random House
, issued The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.
VL
published The Countess of Albany, a biography of Louise von Stolberg
, as one of W. H. Allen
's Eminent Women series (later the Famous Women series).
Mannocchi, Phyllis. “’Vernon Lee’: A Reintroduction and Primary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, Vol.
26
, No. 4, pp. 231-67.
237
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Dodie Smith
DS
's new publisher, W. H. Allen
, published three of her works on the same day: a children's book, The Midnight Kittens; the second volume of her autobiography; and a thriller, The Girl...
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
prelims
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1832 (6 December 1862): 725-8
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Gertrude Stein
GS
published Portraits and Prayers, a collection of old and new writing, with Random House
in New York.
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
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Gertrude Stein
Random House
published GS
's operaFour Saints in Three Acts. The same day it opened magnificently on Broadway, performed by an all black cast, to music by Virgil Thomson
.
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
30
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
152
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
322
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Toni Morrison
In her capacity as editor at Random House
, TM
edited and published an anthology entitled The Black Book, an iconoclastic, archival look at black life in the USA, whose cover features a...
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Nancy Cunard
The authors demanded are the white people to be the sole beneficiaries [of the war]? The pamphlet was published by W. H. Allen
and sold at ninepence.
Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House
became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...
1999: Gail Rebuck became head executive of Random...
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1999
Gail Rebuck
became head executive of Random House
, one of the largest publishers of English language books.
August 2002: Random House published War Torn: Stories...
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August 2002
Random House
published War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam.
Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...
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Early November 2012
A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin
and Random House
, that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
