From Saffron Walden FW
commuted to London to work for the Daily Mirror, answering readers' queries about hire purchase problems. She was threatened with the sack after losing a bit of stained blanket she...
Publishing
Helen Waddell
HW
's sister preserved all her letters, and a chaotic mass of other manuscript material. Meg would have burned these if Monica Blackett
had not wished to use them in her biography.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
JT
supplied an introduction to Rose Macaulay
's The Towers of Trebizond for a handsome edition published by the Folio Society
in 2005.
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.
Textual Production
Joanna Trollope
JT
's modernised retelling of Sense and Sensibility (published in October 2013), is one of a series of projected Jane Austen
updates. In January 2014 Trollope discussed Austen in a podcast with Fay Weldon
in...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
Macmillan
recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person...
Reception
Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review judged this a novel not one of the first order, or even of the second, and its characters too darkly tinted. The two plots were not sufficiently connected and the language had...
Publishing
Jan Morris
Morris did much of the research for this book by traveling to sites of the former empire in preparation for writing the essays that were later collected in Cities.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber.
The book was adapted several times over the years. It was made into a play (1936), a musical (1965), a television serial (1968), and a film by John Schlesinger
(1995), which confounded expectations by doing...
Textual Production
Monica Furlong
MF
edited with an introduction, for the Folio Society
, a volume entitled The Trial of John Bunyan
and the Persecution of the Puritans: Selections from the Writings of John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
AF
supplied introductions for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, April 1975 (by various hands), the Trollope Society
's edition of Anthony Trollope
's Framley Parsonage, 1996, and the Folio Society
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
Nicholas Roeg
used this book for a successful film, Don't Look Now, though, like Hitchcock, he toned down DDM
's hinted male violence and flattened out her moral ambiguity. Du Maurier was said to...
Publishing
Isak Dinesen
She wrote it first in English and translated it herself into Danish. Starting as notes taken at Mbogani House in Kenya, it was continued at Rungstedlund and finished at Skagen. Begun as a...
Publishing
Elizabeth De la Pasture
It seems to have been her only work for the young. The first reprint was in 1914, illustrated by E. T. Reed
. The beautiful Folio Society
edition of 1980, with illustrations by John Lawrence
Timeline
February 1947: The Folio Society was founded in London by...
Bunyan, John, and Agnes Beaumont. The Trial of John Bunyan and the Persecution of the Puritans: Selections from the Writings of John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont. Editor Furlong, Monica, Folio Society, 1978.
De la Pasture, Elizabeth et al. The Unlucky Family. Folio Society, 1980.
Michelangelo, and Michael Ayrton. The Sonnets of Michelangelo. Translator Jennings, Elizabeth, Folio Society, 1961.
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
O’Donovan, John et al. “Introduction”. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Folio Society, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Waugh, Auberon et al. “Introduction”. The Unlucky Family, Folio Society, 1980, p. vii - xii.
Waugh, Daisy et al. “The Unlucky Family”. The Unlucky Family, Folio Society, 1980, p. xii - xiii.