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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/.
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Harper rejected this novel, and it came out pseudonymously from Coward-McCann as The Price of Salt. A paperback followed in 1953, in which the work sold more than a million.
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
She was working on Epitaph for the Race of Man at Cap d'Antibes in March this year.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
376-7
She wanted Harper to print this book and Huntsman, What Quarry? together as a two-volume set, but...
Publishing Phyllis Bottome
The book was first published by George H. Doran in New York and two years later by Collins in London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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
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 Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press.
128
After writing and publishing an...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
A decade or more after publication Cass Canfield at Harper proposed changing the name Aeolus to Ixion in Epitaph for the Race of Man: Millay, he suggested, had got her mythology wrong. She sent...
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
By June 14, 1884, an American edition appeared in New York, published by Harper and Brothers (which oddly published simultaneously another novel with a similar title: A Country Maid by F. W. Robinson )...
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.
i
It was widely translated (including versions in Marathi, Hindi, and Gujerati reflecting the queen's popularity in India)...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Her first version (in which she felt she gave too much space to the prison part of the book) was rejected by Harper and Row . They rejected the second version, too, demanding that either...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
Her contract, signed in January, was for this and a further untitled work. She was to have an advance of $1,000 on delivering each manuscript, and a 15-percent royalty rising to 20 percent after 5,000...
Publishing Frances Browne
Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...
Publishing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Harper edition (1894) was titled Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs. Harper and Brothers.
title-page
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...

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