Little Brown

The great unpublished work of LR 's lifetime was a dictionary. Various groups of friends collaborated on the early phases of this project, first in Mallorca and then in London. Its ancestor was a modest...

That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson and a new contract had been...

She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...

Once recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, Smith began writing stories again after a ten-year interval (she had been writing plays in the interim). The stories that would comprise Free Love were first sent to her...

She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. The English publisher was Michael Joseph

DS published her first novel, the romantic story I Capture the Castle, with Little, Brown in Boston.

In 1970, The Last Joke and Call Me Jacky were published by Heinemann in London and Little, Brown in Boston. They were grouped with two of EB 's more popular works, The Chalk Garden...

She struggled with the writing of this book and put it aside several times to work on other projects. When she finally completed it, she had to argue with her publisher not to cut...

BB was by now a highly marketable commodity as novelists go. Her recent three-book publishing agreement brought her £78,000 up front—almost certainly less than she could have got by bargaining, and even called by...

Its title alludes to Oscar Wilde 's A Woman of No Importance.DS 's American publisher, Little, Brown was shocked at the novel's homosexual content and its likely impact on her readership. They...

Survival, another war novel by PB , was published in Boston by Little, Brown and Company .

Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...

After returning from a lecture tour in the United States, PB published a first-person account of life in Britain during the war, Mansion House of Liberty, with Little, Brown in Boston.

She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss , was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...

The book was first published in London by Faber and Faber ; the following year, it was published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company .