HarperCollins Publishing

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 )...

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

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...

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...

NB 's first novel, Who Calls the Tune, was published by Collins . It was a detective story or crime novel, a kind of climbing frame within which I could write about the things that interested me.

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...

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...

One result of the offence given by Little Black Sambo has been a series of recastings designed to censor its unacceptable aspects. Fred Marcellino produced new illustrations for an edition published by HarperCollins in New...

The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...

LAT provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson 's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver ,