Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | Harper
had wanted the volume to include her preface and two or three new, unpublished sonnets. Producing either of these caused her much anguish. She failed to finish the preface, and felt sure that her... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | She struggled in the same way in spring 1941 over her preface to her Collected Sonnets which was forthcoming from Harper
. She tried to explain the nature of the sonnet as she now understood... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
Publishing | Hope Mirrlees | HM
's friend Virginia Woolf
noted in a letter that Mirrlees took some years to write her first novel, and then (no doubt because of its lesbian theme) had it refused by six or seven... |
Publishing | Deborah Moggach | 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. Sanderson, Caroline. “Deborah Moggach interview”. Mslexia, No. 55, pp. 51-3. 52 |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | EN
's novel The Incredible Honeymoon was issued in New York by Harper and Brothers
; it did not find an English publisher until 1921. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 368, 463 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1000 (17 March 1921):181 |
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 | 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 | Ann Oakley | Its publisher, HarperCollins
, put it into paperback the following year under their Flamingo
imprint. |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir
, introduced MO
to William Blackwood
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 13, 247-8 |
Publishing | George Orwell | GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
). Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams. 41 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Despite JP
's attention to the market, none of the books she published as Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, or Ellalice Tate made it to bestseller status. This left her stumped. The American agent Patricia Myrer |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Under this name she went on to publish fourteen in this matrilineal-family-saga which combines Plaidyish historical interest with Holtesque plot and melodrama. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
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