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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... |
Publishing | Germaine Greer | As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why... |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | 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. Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press. 133 |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | Doubleday
published PH
's novel The Glass Cell, but only after compelling her to do a great deal of painful cutting which left some pages of the former version only three lines long. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury. 250 Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press. 124, 130 |
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 | Patricia Highsmith | PH
's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday
's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann
as A Suspension of Mercy. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury. 256-7 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 62 |
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 |
Publishing | Ruby M. Ayres | The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional... |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM
approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down... |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | The first version was rejected by Harper and Row
with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters. Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press. 128 |
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 |
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 | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
published a collection of poems in French and English, Poems & poèmes, with Émile-Paul Frères
in Paris and George H. Doran
in New York. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran. title-page |
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 |
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