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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
Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton
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Harper had wanted the volume to include her preface and two or three new, unpublished sonnets.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
Towards the end of 1946 ESVM began writing poetry again after years of silence and drug addiction. She published some strong sonnets and other poems in journals, but she declined suggestions from Harper (who, in...
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
She calls it a coming-of-age, autobiographical novel...
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
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
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.
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All the Philippa Carr novels were published by Putnam in the USA...

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