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Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's An Autobiography was published posthumously by Collins , edited by her daughter, Rosalind Hicks .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3946 (11 November 1977): 1312
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began on Challenge in May 1918, early in her affair with Violet, and wrote most of it in Monte Carlo when the two were there together, reading it to Violet in the evenings for...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson 's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver ,
Here...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES contributed English Women to Collins 's Britain in Pictures book series, which had been launched by the late Hilda Matheson as much-needed wartime propaganda.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Collins and Dodd, Mead falsely advertised this as AC 's fiftieth mystery novel, when it was in actual fact her fiftieth book. They ran an enormous 50,000 copies of the novel and widely celebrated the...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM 's highly political, anti-isolationist poetry volume Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook was rushed into print by Harper with unusual speed.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Nina Bawden
NB 's first novel, Who Calls the Tune, was published by Collins . It was a detective story or crime novel, a kind of climbing frame within which I could write about the things that interested me.
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Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
141
Textual Production Ann Oakley
Again issuing works in different genres on the same date, AO published with HarperCollins a third novel, The Secret Lives of Eleanor Jenkinson.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins.
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Textual Production Ann Oakley
AO published, again with HarperCollins , a novel, A Proper Holiday, about English holidaymakers abroad.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She kept a diary which is still unpublished, first during her acting tour of Australia and then during the second world war, the latter under the title of London under Fire.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne.
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She...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM 's poem There Are No Islands, Any More, urging Americans to join the war in Europe, was issued as a separate booklet of ten pages by Harper through the Haddon Press .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
448
Textual Production Ann Oakley
Its publisher, HarperCollins , put it into paperback the following year under their Flamingo imprint.
Textual Production Katherine Cecil Thurston
It was published by Harper & Brothers in both places.
The notice in the Athenæum listed the publisher wrongly.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
4017 (22 October 1904): 546
Before it appeared in book form, it was serialized in Britain...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
PH made her name in one step with her first book, Strangers on a Train, published as a Harper Novel of Suspense.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury.
168
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Highsmith, Patricia. Carol. Bloomsbury.
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Timeline

1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...

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1875

Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland Menzies) issued a History of France for Junior Classes.

1876: Elizabeth Stone, under the pseudonym of Sutherland...

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1876

Elizabeth Stone , under the pseudonym of Sutherland Menzies, published a volume in Collins 's School Series, entitled History of Germany for Junior Classes.

1877: The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland...

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1877

The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland Menzies issued under her pseudonym a two history books this year in the CollinsSchool Series.

29 December 1940: St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an...

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29 December 1940

St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...

1963: Collins published Patricia Moyes's detective...

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1963

Collins published Patricia Moyes 's detectivenovelMurder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club .

January 1974: Collins published The Property of a Gentleman,...

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January 1974

Collins published The Property of a Gentleman, a novel by Catherine Gaskin .

1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...

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1983

The title of Maggie Ross 's novelMilena, published by Collins , refers to Kafka 's mistress Milena Jesenská .

23 September 2010: The British edition appeared of US author...

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23 September 2010

The British edition appeared of US author Jonathan Franzen 's latest novel, Freedom. Within a couple of weeks the edition had to be pulped.
Brown, Derek. “Week in Britain. A mistake of genius”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.

14 July 2015: Harper Lee's first-written but rejected novel,...

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14 July 2015

Harper Lee 's first-written but rejected novel, Go Set a Watchman, reached print from HarperCollins . It is set later in the lives of characters in her wildly successful and so far only novel,...

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