Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 131 |
Publishing | 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 |
Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
was co-manager of Alfred A. Knopf
's London branch with Guy Patterson Chapman
(who became her husband on 1 February 1926). Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 81-2 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 47 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | Jameson met Romer Wilson
, Charles Morgan
, and J. W. N. Sullivan
through her Knopf
connections. By about 1924 she and Edith Sitwell
had visited each other's homes. Jameson felt that in spite of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Storm Jameson | Though the reunion of Jameson and her son was not permanent, they moved to Weybridge at some point in 1924. She began work on her fifth novel, as her Knopf
salary did not cover their... |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | She was once charged by Knopf
with the task of attempting to persuade Wyndham Lewis
to keep them as his American publisher, which she did on a cold, rainy day as vile as his temper... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | She had worked for Knopf
since 1923 and was friendly with both Blanche and Alfred Knopf
. Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, p. i - vii. i |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | 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... |
Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
worked as a publishing representative for Alfred A. Knopf
in London. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 75 Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, p. i - vii. i |
Textual Production | Patricia Highsmith | |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | This novel was initially rejected by Knopf
. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 102: 221 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1194 (4 December 1924): 820 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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