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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Alice Munro | Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies. Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart. 352 |
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 |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking
(to their indignation) and... |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott
, who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in... |
Textual Production | Helen Oyeyemi | Her publishers were Picador
in the UK and Doubleday
's Nan A. Talese
imprint in the USA. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 |
Publishing | Jean Plaidy | This year too, Doubleday
, publisher of JP
's Victoria Holt books, began issuing them in large print, largely for older readers. This decision greatly boosted sales. Rawlinson, Nora. “Prepub Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Captive</span> by Victoria Holt”. Library Journal, Vol. 114 , No. 9, p. 60. 60 |
Publishing | Laura Riding | With Robert Graves
, LR
published in LondonA Survey of Modernist Poetry, written at Vienna the previous winter. It was issued through the commercial publishers: Heinemann
and, next year in New York, Doubleday
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 97 and n32 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's Challenge, a novel based on her love-affair with Violet Trefusis
, appeared in New York from George H. Doran
; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, pp. 7-11. 7 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | It was published with other short stories by Doubleday, Doran
in 1932. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | This was her second book about her visits to Persia. The American edition was by Doubleday, Doran
. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 27n5 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | She began to work on it in June 1929 (starting the first chapter in the railway restaurant at Cologne) and finished it the next March. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura. 222 Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 109n3, 148 |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson
, and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast) Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 57 |
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. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. xv |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder
and £2,000 from Doubleday
. |
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