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AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.

She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...

The book was first published in London by Collins , followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press .

The title of A Few Figs from Thistles is a mischievous reversal of Christ 's rhetorical question: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Hoping that fiction would be more successful than another book on metaphysics, ABB stepped away from philosophy and theology to try her hand at storytelling. Originally she submitted the novel to the literary magazine Harper's...

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 ).

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...

This was published by Harper in three distinct editions: the trade edition priced at two dollars, a limited edition of 500 autographed and numbered copies at fifteen dollars (for which Millay apparently refused the title...

The book was first published by George H. Doran in New York and two years later by Collins in London.

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.

She was working on Epitaph for the Race of Man at Cap d'Antibes in March this year. She wanted Harper to print this book and Huntsman, What Quarry? together as a two-volume set, but...

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 )...

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.

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...