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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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
167-8
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
Publishing Agatha Christie
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...
Publishing Agatha Christie
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...
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...
Publishing Agatha Christie
She had sent the manuscript to Collins , who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
263
She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork , to search for another publisher. Heinemann signed...
Publishing Agatha Christie
AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte.
392
Reception Agatha Christie
In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...
Textual Production Joseph Conrad
JC 's autobiography, A Personal Record, was published by Harper and Brothers in New York.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
8
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
She worked in various ways, too, to encourage and promote younger writers, including her relative Georgiana Craik , the authors of a Harper 's series of books for girls that she endorsed, and the working-class...
Publishing Rebecca Harding Davis
RHD 's Doctor Warrick's Daughters was published in parts in the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar before being released as a novel by Harper of New York.
Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers.
xvii, 149
Textual Production Rebecca Harding Davis
RHD 's final novel, published by Harper , was entitled Frances Waldeaux.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press.
264
Publishing E. M. Delafield
In 1931, Harper brought out an illustrated American edition with drawings by Arthur Watts and an introduction by Mary Borden .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Borden introduced the book to US readers, finding it necessary to offer some comment...
Publishing Charlotte Dempster
CD 's next novel Iseulte (issued as by the author of Véra), appeared in both England and the US, published by Smith, Elder, and Co. and Harper and Brothers respectively.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Penelope Fitzgerald
She wrote this book nearly twenty years after the experiences on which she based it, and not long after her husband died. With it she switched publishers for her novels, from Duckworth to Collins ...

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