Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | The prospect of personal revelations in this book aroused great anticipation. A Doubleday
editor, no less than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
, offered $100,000 for world rights and was disappointed not to get them. |
| Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | Her Doubleday
editor wrote: although it was so very complex, it all fell together beautifully. . . . She was what I call a real caviar writer. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury. 281 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Allingham | The idea for this character shift came from her US publishers, Doubleday Doran
. But the book was more fundamentally and crucially influenced by the collaboration of MA
's husband Pip Carter
. She always... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edna O'Brien | Ernest was by this time a relatively successful writer, but a controlling and disappointed man who was jealous of her talent. Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9. 38 |
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