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Textual Production | Patricia Highsmith | |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | Near the end of her career, PB
wrote five historical and adventure novels intended for a young adult audience. The first, The Adventures of Tom Leigh, appeared in 1964, followed in March 1967 by... |
Reception | Enid Bagnold | The book received mixed responses. The Times accused EB
of snobbery and sentimentality and Time magazine offended her by comparing this novel unfavourably with National Velvet: Not all the wealthy fading beauties in... |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The book was first published by George H. Doran
in New York and two years later by Collins
in London. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | This was reprinted in a Vintage
edition for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, along with re-issues of other NM
novels, both early and better-known. |
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
. |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | Wigs on the Green and its predecessor, Christmas Pudding were re-issued in Vintage
editions for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, in one volume with an introduction by Jane Smiley
. |
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 |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | VW
negotiated with American publishers over the rights to The Voyage Out and Night and Day; George H. Doran
of New York became her first American publisher. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 2: 401, 403 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | |
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 | Virginia Woolf | The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much... |
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... |
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