HarperCollins Publishing

VSW published English Country Houses, illustrated both in colour and black-and-white, in Collins 's Britain in Pictures series, the brainchild of her lover Hilda Matheson .

At her agent's suggestion MG had left Heinemann (which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo , the literary imprint of HarperCollins . This was to...

She found anthologising hard work, with books (most of them disappointing) pouring in from the library with deadline dates of return. She needed to select, photocopy, order and re-order her growing mountain of material, and...

She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore , too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which...

This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo . But after the first book, Lost Children, the head...

Millay asked Harper to make the printed version a big flat book perhaps 14 by 10 with many colored illustrations . . . . a Christmas gift book and as gaudy as a Christmas tree...

Harper published the novel in the USA in the same year, as Red Hair.

The US edition of Swamp Angel was published by Harper's at the same time as the Canadian edition. During negotiations over it, Harper's readers felt that the story was too slight and that too many...

RM 's novel Dangerous Ages was published by Collins , who became from now on her sole publisher for fiction.

In summer 1934 ESVM 's former lover George Dillon began translating Charles Baudelaire . The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...

Agatha Miller (later AC ) wrote and published (under various pseudonyms) her first poems while she was about eleven. She was paid a guinea for each poem by Poetry Review. Her earliest verses have...

Another forerunner, whether or not she was conscious of it, was Biography of a Spaniel, included by the obscure Mrs Showes in a collection of short fiction translated from German, called Interesting Tales...

This was the first of her fourteen books published by Collins (for whom her lover Gerald O'Donovan worked). Gerald, however, seems not to have been involved personally with her books.

She began writing this novel in Pakistan, and got half-way through before her return to England, where she completed it during her baby son's sleeping time. She calls it a coming-of-age, autobiographical novel...

After publishing her first novel, John Lane held rights to her next five books: The Secret Adversary (1922), The Murder on the Links (1923), The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), Poirot Investigates (1924), and...