Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
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Willa Cather
On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv.
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It sold 30,000...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
258-61
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
It sold nearly 5,000 copies in six weeks, a further acceleration of the high sales rate (for ICB
) of Elders and Betters.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
She followed these with other translations of his works: Horla and Other Stories (1925), and (with Ernest Boyd
) Eighty-Eight Short Stories (1930). All of these volumes were put out by Knopf
, the publisher...
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Angela Thirkell
In December the same year came Before Lunch, finished just before war broke out. After this AT
's rate of production at least slightly declined.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
124,127
By this stage of her career, she was...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
With this book ICB
's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz
was to reprint her earlier titles.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
271
Its American publication, by Knopf
, preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
209
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Knopf
published the work in New York that same year. In 1952, George Harrap
issued a new edition, as did Pan Books
in 1958.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
77
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
267
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Knopf
declined to publish this novel, on the grounds that ICB
's sales in the USA had been disappointing. In the end it was published by Julian Messner
of New York instead.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
233
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Molly Keane
Her children were grown up and she was, she says, doing nothing. She began writing in the same secrecy as at the beginning of her career, still finding the process painful.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press.
This poem was No. 2 of The Borzoi Chap Books published in New York by Alfred Knopf
.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
280
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George Egerton
She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart
Publishing
Alice Munro
Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
