Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Textual Production
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.
Textual Production
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.
Sales of the novel were slow until it was published in 1969 by Penguin
, when things changed. Julia Briggs observes that with VW
's popularity still growing, even a neglected novel now commands substantial sales.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. Allen Lane.
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Textual Production
George Orwell
Sonia Orwell
and Ian Angus
edited a four-volume Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, which appeared in a Penguin
paperback in 1970. Other editions have followed.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
The trial regarding obscenity charges against DHL
's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited
, began at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Lady Chatterley’s Lover</span> Trial. Bodley Head.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin.
163-5
Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press.
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Reception
Nancy Mitford
Oswald Mosley
banned his sister-in-law from his home after this novel.
Knight, India. “Nit, Sick, and Bore”. London Review of Books, pp. 25-6.
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But she opposed its reissue after the war, on the grounds that [t]oo much has happened for jokes about Nazis to be regarded...
Reception
D. H. Lawrence
Penguin
released an edition of 200,000 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover to the public; the novel by DHL
had been banned in England for more than thirty years.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis.
96-7
Reception
Nancy Mitford
This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society
Choice, and earned NM
over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris.
Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton.
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Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain.
After its success on...
Reception
Vita Sackville-West
Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
Harris, Sharon M., editor. Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Penguin, 2003.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7-50.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
Hill, Susan. Family. Penguin, 1990.
Holligdale, Reginald John, and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Translator’s Notes”. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ, Penguin, 1990, pp. 25-7.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin, 1980.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Penguin, 1967.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. Penguin, 1994.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Nature of Passion. Penguin, 1986.
Jolley, Elizabeth. Fellow Passengers. Editor Milech, Barbara H., Penguin, 1997.
Jolley, Elizabeth. Mr. Scobie’s Riddle. Penguin, 1983.