She submitted the manuscript to the Ouspensky Society
, of which she was at the time a member, and they insisted on some insignificant cuts. She was finding she could not make a living on...
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Fay Weldon
She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann
on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee
, her previous publisher, which...
AC
's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...
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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...
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Muriel Jaeger
This book was reprinted as a Penguin
paperback in 1967 as Before Victoria. Changing Standards and Behaviour, 1787-1837.
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In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
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Virginia Woolf
During the interim Woolf's overall sales went up by at least half, and a Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics set of her works (taking a feminist approach) was commissioned, along with several other new editions. Publishers were...
Publishing
Helen Oyeyemi
Bloomsbury
in London and Penguin
in New York published HO
's second novel, The Opposite House.
The collection was reprinted by Penguin
in 1982. In the same year one of its stories, Happy Event, was included in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
It was reprinted by Penguin
thirty years after its appearance.
Publishing
E. H. Young
EHY
changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape
for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin
imprint.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
Publishing
Jennifer Johnston
First published with Hamish Hamilton
, who would become JJ
's regular publishers, The Captains and the Kings was later reprinted as a Penguin
paperback, a trend that would continue with most of her works...
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