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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... |
Reception | Charlotte Guest | Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey
: many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere... |
Reception | Nina Bawden | When the book was published, NB
received a letter from her old headmistress reproving her more in sorrow than in anger for having used the name of one of the school's Jewish refugees for a... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Rebecca Harding Davis | |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
introduced a second famous detective character, the unobtrusive elderly spinster Miss Marple, in a novel entitled The Murder at the Vicarage, published by Collins
with a dedication To Rosalind, her daughter. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1501 (11 June 1930): 921 |
Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | She had struggled to finish this novel in the final months of her illness. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 316 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
published with Collins
and Dodd, Mead
a Miss Marple murder mystery entitled A Murder is Announced (a title parodying the form of newspaper announcement for births, marriages, and deaths). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2525 (23 June 1950): 385 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 70 |
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... |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
and Langston Hughes
composed the play Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts. It was published by HarperPerennial
in 1991. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 61 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
's Miss Marple made her final appearance in the detective novel Sleeping Murder, published by Collins
and Dodd, Mead
, but written thirty years earlier. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3892 (15 October 1976): 1307 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 81 |
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