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Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the series, was published by Smith Elder in 1858.Ruth Rendell wrote an introduction to a Penguin edition in 1991. The fourth in the series, Framley Parsonage...

Levy says she began writing this reluctantly. I didn't really want to go back in my mind to that cruel society, to waiting for Dad to come back. The result was reprinted early the...

Published by Penguin , this book reproduces on its cover a portrait of LL by Claudia Petretti . The volume was reprinted twice in two years for a total of 8,500 copies.

Work then began under the editorship of Lars E. Troide at the beginning of the earlier journals: The Early Journals and Letters (five volumes, 1988-2012, which take the young Burney to 1783), The Court Journals...

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...

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...

It was later re-issued as a Penguin paperback.

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...

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...

This book was reprinted as a Penguin paperback in 1967 as Before Victoria. Changing Standards and Behaviour, 1787-1837.

PH , writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...

In her professional career, NS gradually came to accept the role of writer for children as a more prominent part of her identity than that of writer for adults. She answered letters from children who...

As a schoolgirl CAD had a Saturday job sweeping the floor at a local hairdresser's. Her pay each week bought her ten cigarettes, a bottle of wine, and a Penguin collection of some modern poet.

In 2017 both KS and Penelope Lively were approached by Penguin to select under-appreciated works for inclusion in a series of forgotten classics by female British authors in recognition of the centenary passing of Representation...

In the 1950s, UM struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf , but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...