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Material Conditions of Writing Penelope Mortimer
PM also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy 's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers , but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request...
Employer Toni Morrison
TM , already the author of five novels, resigned from her job with Random House in order to become a full-time author (though she continued to take short-term appointments in the university world).
Cooke, Rachel. “America is going backwards”. The Observer, p. 15.
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Textual Production 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...
Material Conditions of Writing Toni Morrison
Soon after TM left her editor's position at Random House , she contributed to an anthology by Mari Evans (Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation) an essay entitled Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi. “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”. New York Times Magazine.
Employer Toni Morrison
Meanwhile, after her divorce, TM came north and became an associate editor with a subsidiary of Random House publishers, then transferred to the parent company. With two small children and little social life, she held...
Intertextuality and Influence Toni Morrison
TM dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some...
Literary responses Toni Morrison
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah has argued that of all the books Morrison dealt with at Random House , this one stands out as a strange and singular creation and one that vividly captures her notion of...
Textual Production Toni Morrison
TM 's memoirs were set for publication by Random House (under the imprint of Chatto and Windus ) in December 2005,
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
but she later cancelled the contract, saying that she found it more interesting to write fiction.
Publishing Carson McCullers
She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House to publish...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
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.
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, No. 4, pp. 231-67.
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Textual Production James Joyce
In 1933 Bennett Cerf and Random House agreed to publish an American edition of Ulysses. A trial was required.
Publishing Kathleen Jamie
KJ published with Random House of Toronto her book The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
Its early working title was The Deep Blue Sea. She mentioned it as work in progress to Terence Rattigan , who thought it a very good title indeed. She later wrote that she liked...
Publishing Bessie Head
Toni Morrison in her capacity as an editor at Random House annoyed BH by wanting to classify these two as young people's books.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
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Then in early 1979 Heinemann (the last publisher that could...
Textual Production H. D.
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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Texts

Brookner, Anita. Falling Slowly. Random House, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Random House, 1996.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Byrne, Paula. Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson. Random House, 2006.
Carson, Anne. Plainwater. Random House, 1995.
Dinesen, Isak. Ehrengard. Random House, 1962.
Dinesen, Isak. The Angelic Avengers. Random House, 1946.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House, 1969.
Gallant, Mavis. The Pegnitz Junction. Random House, 1973.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
Jamie, Kathleen. The Golden Peak. Random House, 1990.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
McCarthy, Mary. The Oasis. Random House, 1949.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
Schapiro, Leonard Bertram. Turgenev, His Life and Times. Random House, 1978.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House, 2004.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II. Random House, 2004.
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989.
Stead, Christina. Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife). Random House, 1976.
Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. Random House, 1937.
Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude. Ida. Random House, 1941.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.