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Also in 1846 CG edited for publication The Queen of Denmark, An Historical Novel, a literal translation from Danish by A. N. de St Aubain of Gamle Minder 's historical novel. It was reprinted...

HM 's friend Virginia Woolf noted in a letter that Mirrlees took some years to write her first novel, and then (no doubt because of its lesbian theme) had it refused by six or seven...

Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency , where it was noticed by Bryony Evans , who had the job of opening the post. The...

Collins re-issued this title in their Evergreen Library series in 1965. This book, set in the noisy, grimy, community-minded South London which NS knew from air-raid work during the war, was followed by a sequel,...

This book was published in New York at the same time by Harper and Brothers .

She had sent the manuscript to Collins , who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable. She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork , to search for another publisher. Heinemann signed...

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...

AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.

The title of A Few Figs from Thistles is a mischievous reversal of Christ 's rhetorical question: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...

The book was first published in London by Collins , followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press .

This was published by Harper in three distinct editions: the trade edition priced at two dollars, a limited edition of 500 autographed and numbered copies at fifteen dollars (for which Millay apparently refused the title...

Hoping that fiction would be more successful than another book on metaphysics, ABB stepped away from philosophy and theology to try her hand at storytelling. Originally she submitted the novel to the literary magazine Harper's...

GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).