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EB 's Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring was published [a]fter much wrangling with Houghton Mifflin . Although not called a collected poems, the volume brought together new poems (not as many as the...

EB began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House , Viking , and Simon and Schuster . Harcourt Brace offered...

EB accumulated a remarkable roster of awards and prizes, from Houghton Mifflin 's first annual $1,000 Poetry Prize in 1944, through her $2,500 Guggenheim in April 1947 and a travel grant for $7,000 from the...

It was published by John Lane in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York. Although PB had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from...

WC published with Houghton Mifflin what is often called her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, which is properly a novella. She had been working on it since the previous year.

This book too dated back to 1911, when WC produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...

On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel. It was her first book to be published with Knopf instead of with Houghton Mifflin . It sold 30,000...

KC 's third collection of stories, A Vocation and Voice, featured works that had previously been published in a variety of places, including Vogue. The manuscript was rejected by publishers Houghton Mifflin in...

Serialization of JWH 's memoir Reminiscences: 1819-1899 began in the Atlantic Monthly. A book version with additional chapters was released by Houghton Mifflin the same year.

A new but unfinished book of poems (which JWH had been working on at the time of her death in October) was assembled by her daughter Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin

She began this novel under the title of The Mute while she was ill in bed at the end of 1936. In 1938 her outline won second prize in the Houghton Mifflin fiction contest, bringing...

She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House to publish...

She turned to writing and broadcasting when mountain guiding and other travel-type jobs proved to be inadequately paid. She dedicated the book to her mother, and published it with Hodder and Stoughton in Britain and...

Houghton Mifflin had accepted it on 19 May 1959, offering an advance of $200 against royalties. The manuscript was due at the printers on 1 August 1959, but Sexton held it up with last-minute changes....

She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965. She fought a battle with her US publisher, Houghton Mifflin , over a jacket she disliked, and secured instead the use of a...