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, 1958.
Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with...
Publishing
Margaret Laurence
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
Ford Madox Ford
The first single-volume edition of FMF
's Parade's End tetralogy was published by Knopf
in New York.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1962.
87
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D. H. Lawrence
DHL
attempted to find an English or American publisher, but met with no success: the sexual language and actions of Constance Chatterley, the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, and others were seen as immoral and unfit for...
Publishing
André Gide
Strait is the Gate, an English translation of AG
's La porte étroite by Dorothy Bussy
, was published by Jarrolds
in London and Knopf
in New York.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Norah Lofts
Lofts circulated this manuscript among publishers for five years before it was accepted by Knopf
. During this time, she did not write any further fiction: I was too despairing, and I thought if that...
Publishing
André Gide
Dorothy Bussy
's English translation of AG
's L'immoraliste (Paris, 1902) was published by Knopf
in New York as The Immoralist.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, 1988, p. v - xvi.
ix
Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM
that her...
Publishing
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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André Gide
A four-volume edition of Gide's influential diaries, The Journals of André Gide, translated into English by Justin O'Brien
, was published by Knopf
in New York.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
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Katherine Mansfield
Most of the stories dated from several years before, and had been published in periodicals. An edition from Knopf
, New York, followed in January 1921.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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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, 1977.
