Penguin

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Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF contributed to the Penguin series Lives of Modern Women her short biography Bessie Smith.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published Voices at Play: Stories and Ear-pieces: this collects short stories but also four ear-pieces, or radio plays.
The Penguin edition, 1966, drops the subtitle.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
239-240
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 170-91.
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Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
JOF issued another short-story collection, Daughters of Passion, which appeared from Penguin Books .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Reception Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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and William James wrote to tell her that it was...
Reception Augusta Gregory
In 1995 Penguin published a volume of AG 's selected writings, edited by Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen Waters , circulating her work to a wider audience. That year also saw the launch of the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering
Reception D. H. Lawrence
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.
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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.
5: 214
It was a Book Society Choice, recommended by Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole , and...
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's works began to appear as Virago Modern Classics: all except two, which instead appeared in Penguin .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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Gates, Henry Louis, and Henry Louis Gates, editors. “Introduction”. The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987, p. ix - xviii.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
George Savile, Marquess of Halifax,. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Penguin, 1996.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin, 1992.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995.
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.