JC
's introduction is a succinct and sharply intelligent historical sketch of women's poetry in English and the forces arrayed against it. She begins with the Gaelic oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands as represented...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sybille Bedford
This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production
Alice Munro
This was re-issued by Penguin Canada
in 2007 under the title Away from Her: Stories, with a foreword by Sarah Polley
. This title comes from what was by now the most famous piece...
AS
's fifth novel, There But For The, was published by Penguin
. Like her previous works, it comprises multiple narratives joined by a singular force, and like The Accidental and The Seer...
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Liz Lochhead
The production, which marked the 400th anniversary of Mary Stuart's beheading, transferred to the Donmar Warehouse
in London in September. It was copyrighted in 1988 and published by Penguin
along with Dracula in August 1989.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Dorothy Whipple
DW
published her second novel, High Wages (re-issued by Penguin
in 1946, among John Murray
's Guild Books in 1952, and by Chivers Press
in 1978).
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Timeline
30 July 1935: Penguin Books issued its first ten titles:...
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30 July 1935
Penguin Books
issued its first ten titles: sixpenny paperbacks with a characteristic penguin logo.
1937: The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its...
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1937
The two-year-old Penguin Books
launched its Pelican imprint: a non-fiction series (mostly history, sociology, economics, or politics) which, unlike Penguin fiction, were new works not reprints.
1941: Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin designed...
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1941
Puffin
, a subsidiary of Penguin
designed to publish (initially) picture books for children in paperback, issued its first four titles.
1949: Hans Schmoller succeeded Jan Tschichold as...
1951: Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three...
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1951
Nikolaus Pevsner
published the first three titles in his Buildings of England series, an immensely knowledgeable gazetteer, county by county, of historic and other noteworthy structures.
29 July 1959: The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959,...
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29 July 1959
The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959, replacing a predecessor of 1857, substantially modified its elements; it newly provided the defence of public good (which was held to include literary merit), and the use...
1963: E. P. Thompson published his influential...
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1963
E. P. Thompson
published his influential historyThe Making of the English Working Class.
1972: Designer Richard Hollis produced a revolutionary...
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1972
Designer Richard Hollis
produced a revolutionary look for John Berger
's Ways of Seeing in Penguin
paperback: the work's text begins on the cover, incorporating (as pages do throughout the book) a cover-like visual.
1974: Erin Pizzey published with Penguin her book...
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1974
Erin Pizzey
published with Penguin
her book on marital violence, Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear.
May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...
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May 1978
Virago Press
issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
1979: The cover of M. M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions...
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1979
The cover of M. M. Kaye
's The Far Pavilions in Penguin
paperback (the year after its original publication) shocked Penguin's established constituency with its picture of a couple (the man with bare torso) kissing.
By 20 June 2000: Jane Nissen, a former editor at Penguin,...
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By 20 June 2000
Jane Nissen
, a former editor at Penguin
, published the first four titles by Jane Nissen Books
, reprints of much-loved children's books of the twentieth century.
8 June 2005: An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert...
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8 June 2005
An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London entitled Penguin
by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 provided useful insight into its immediate topic, but also into twentieth-century book design in general.
By the end of July 2010: Sales of the three novels in the Millennium...
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By the end of July 2010
Sales of the three novels in the Millennium series by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson
(of which the first was published in England on 10 January 2008) broke records with worldwide sales estimated at between...
Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...
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Early November 2012
A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin
and Random House
, that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.