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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
Publishing | Agatha Christie | |
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 | |
Textual Production | Rebecca Harding Davis | |
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. |
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 |
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