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Textual Production | Agatha Christie | Signing herself Mary Westmacott, AC
published with Collins
a novel entitled Giant's Bread, which is not a detective story or thriller: it deals with reversals of fortune, longing for ancestral homes, and trials of love. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 167-8 |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Two days before her seventy-fifth birthday, DL
published, with HarperCollins
, Under My Skin, a first volume of autobiography. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4776 (14 October 1994): 37 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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 | 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. 71 |
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 | 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. 53-4 |
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 | 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. 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. 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. prelims |
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. 450-1 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. 13, xvi |
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. |
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