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Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
The US edition of Swamp Angel was published by Harper's at the same time as the Canadian edition. During negotiations over it, Harper's readers felt that the story was too slight and that too many...
Reception Ethel Wilson
John Gray attempted to persuade the New York division of Macmillan to publish the two novellas together in an American edition, but the company thought that two novellas had even less of a market than...
Reception Ethel Wilson
Lilly's Story was translated into German and published in Switzerland in 1952, entitled simply Lilly. This was also the title for the Danish edition which appeared in 1954. Both stories were published in an...
Textual Production Roma White
RW published, under this name and for six shillings through Harper and Brothers , 'Twixt Town and Country. A Book of Suburban Gardening.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Doreen Wallace
DW 's next novel, Creatures of an Hour, which also appeared in 1933 (title adapted from a love-poem by Keats ), was her last before she switched, in 1934, her publisher from Ernest Benn
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW told a journalist during the 1970s that she had published under the name of Mary Crossley. This author name appears in library catalogues of the period for only one novel, titled (from a...
Publishing Queen Victoria
An American edition of the book was printed later that same year by Harper and Brothers .
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Harper and Brothers.
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It was widely translated (including versions in Marathi, Hindi, and Gujerati reflecting the queen's popularity in India)...
Publishing Alison Uttley
Later, however, Collins took Little Grey Rabbit on, and AU 's happy partnership with William Collins was launched with Squirrel Goes Skating, 1934. It continued through Little Grey Rabbit's Party, 1936; The Knot...
Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU rewrote it for eventual publication by Collins . She sent a set of the Little Grey Rabbit books as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth in 1947 (and had, she said, a charming thank-you...
Publishing Alison Uttley
This book caused AU much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she...
Publishing P. L. Travers
The book was first published in London by Collins , followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Katherine Cecil Thurston
It was published by Harper & Brothers in both places.
The notice in the Athenæum listed the publisher wrongly.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
4017 (22 October 1904): 546
Before it appeared in book form, it was serialized in Britain...
Publishing Noel Streatfeild
Collins re-issued this title in their Evergreen Library series in 1965. This book, set in the noisy, grimy, community-minded South London which NS knew from air-raid work during the war, was followed by a sequel,...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She kept a diary which is still unpublished, first during her acting tour of Australia and then during the second world war, the latter under the title of London under Fire.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne.
13, xvi
She...

Timeline

1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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January 1974

Collins published The Property of a Gentleman, a novel by Catherine Gaskin .

1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...

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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...

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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,...

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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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