AW
's usual publishers, Random House
, were put off by the spirituality that drives this book, and did not want to issue it.
Walker, Alice. “A Conversation with David Swick from <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Shambhala Sun</span> (2006)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, pp. 301-10.
It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that...
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
Textual Production
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.
31
Textual Production
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
Publishing
Gertrude Stein
This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf
of Random House
and GS
for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS
's works at the rate of one...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
In his introduction to this text, Thornton Wilder
wrote that the fundamental preoccupation of Miss Stein's life was not the work of art but the shaping of a theory of knowledge, a theory of time...
Textual Production
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...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span>”;. Daily Telegraph.
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...
Textual Production
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...
Publishing
Laura Riding
She had begun writing this on Mallorca, before the Spanish Civil War. It was the first of her books to be published in New York by her new US publisher, Random House
, and...
Textual Production
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...
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of...
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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.
