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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC
has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Bannerman | One result of the offence given by Little Black Sambo has been a series of recastings designed to censor its unacceptable aspects. Fred Marcellino
produced new illustrations for an edition published by HarperCollins
in New... |
Textual Production | Nina Bawden | |
Reception | Nina Bawden | When the book was published, NB
received a letter from her old headmistress reproving her more in sorrow than in anger for having used the name of one of the school's Jewish refugees for a... |
Publishing | Nina Bawden | |
Publishing | Sybille Bedford | 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... |
Publishing | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | 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... |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The book was first published by George H. Doran
in New York and two years later by Collins
in London. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Emma Frances Brooke | By June 14, 1884, an American edition appeared in New York, published by Harper and Brothers
(which oddly published simultaneously another novel with a similar title: A Country Maid by F. W. Robinson
)... |
Publishing | Frances Browne | Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie
recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable... |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
introduced a second famous detective character, the unobtrusive elderly spinster Miss Marple, in a novel entitled The Murder at the Vicarage, published by Collins
with a dedication To Rosalind, her daughter. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1501 (11 June 1930): 921 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
published with Collins
and Dodd, Mead
a Miss Marple murder mystery entitled A Murder is Announced (a title parodying the form of newspaper announcement for births, marriages, and deaths). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2525 (23 June 1950): 385 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 70 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
's Miss Marple made her final appearance in the detective novel Sleeping Murder, published by Collins
and Dodd, Mead
, but written thirty years earlier. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3892 (15 October 1976): 1307 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 81 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | With Collins
, AC
published Murder on the Orient Express, a detective novel featuring a radical experiment in plotting, Lanchester, John. “The Case of Agatha Christie”. London Review of Books, Vol. 40 , No. 24, pp. 3-8. 5 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1667 (11 January 1934): 29 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 76 |
Timeline
1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...
Women writers item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Women writers item
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...
National or international item
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...
Women writers item
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,...
Writing climate item
January 1974
1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...
Women writers item
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...
Writing climate item
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,...
Writing climate item
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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