Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Publishing | Flora Annie Steel | This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan
. They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Macmillan
accompanied its usual edition of MS
's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 14 Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 15: 490 |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan
to Bodley Head
. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 16 Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 15: 491 |
Residence | Muriel Spark | After leaving the Poetry Society, MS
moved to a lodging-house at 1 Vicarage Gate, off Church Street, Kensington, where she lived from 1949 to 1950. In the summer of 1950 she moved again... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS
considered... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Spark | |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 8 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 208 Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin. flyleaf |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel, Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 9 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 220 |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham
(who had sold some Penguin
paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic... |
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... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan
's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani
on its first appearance... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Macmillan
made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan
, meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark |
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