Delafield, E. M. Late and Soon. Macmillan, 1943.
prelims, 278
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Doris Lessing | DL
published short fiction and essays throughout her career: in such places as Partisan Review, Ms magazine, Welcome Aboard (British Airways
' inflight magazine), Discovery (Cathay Pacific
's magazine, published in Hong... |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
identified strongly as a working woman across established class boundaries. She wrote towards the end of her life to Oscar Wilde
, suggesting that he should alter the name of the monthly magazine he... |
Dedications | E. M. Delafield | EMD
completed her last novel, Late and Soon. It was published by Macmillan
in April 1943 with a dedication to her friend Kate O'Brien
, who looked after her during her last months. Delafield, E. M. Late and Soon. Macmillan, 1943. prelims, 278 Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988. 179 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company
, EW
also met Morley Callaghan
, who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray
, A. J. M. Smith
, Robert Weaver |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | The two women were friends through the 1930s and their relationship became increasingly intimate after the death of Winifred Holtby on 29 September 1935. Brittain stayed with Jameson and Chapman the night after Holtby died... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | Having just had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan
, she felt sure that Down (which she calls deeply influenced by Salinger
's Catcher in the Rye) was accepted because it was about young man, not a woman. Fairbairns, Zoë, Sara Maitland, Valerie Miner, Michèle Roberts, and Michelene Wandor, editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987. 167 |
Literary responses | Flora Annie Steel | |
Literary responses | Jemima Tautphoeus | JT
's fiction received mixed reviews during her life. A Mrs Marie Barrett-Lennard
of Sevenoaks went to some trouble to locate copies of her books in the late 1920s, when one might have supposed her... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Spark | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Augusta Ward | Shortly before giving birth to her first child, MAW
ambitiously proposed to write for Macmillan
a primer of English poetry. However, when she took some draft material to Macmillan general editor John Richard Green
... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
's second novel, Down: An Explanation, written as an undergraduate and again published through Macmillan
, was another brief, first-person coming-of-age story (male viewpoint this time). Miller, Jane Eldridge. “Other New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3532, p. 1274. 1274 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. |
Occupation | May Laffan | |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | About twenty years after their spell of publishing MAB
's books for children to great acclaim, Macmillan
, in the person of the son of her old friend Alexander Macmillan
, rejected her 7,000-word manuscript... |
Publishing | Mary Kingsley | A year later, in December 1895, when MK
was back from her first West African trip, she resumed submitting manuscripts about her travels to Macmillan
. They assigned Dr Henry Guillemard
to be her... |