Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
450-1
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
's highly political, anti-isolationist poetry volume Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook was rushed into print by Harper
with unusual speed. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450-1 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
's poem There Are No Islands, Any More, urging Americans to join the war in Europe, was issued as a separate booklet of ten pages by Harper
through the Haddon Press
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 448 |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | Flowers of Evil by George Dillon
and ESVM
, their translation of Baudelaire
's Les Fleurs du Mal, was published by Harper
. Individual poems bore the initials of one or other or both translators. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 398 |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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? “The Bible, King James Version: Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha, 1611”. University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center, Printed by Robert Barker. 7:16 |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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. 23 |
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