Penguin

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Publishing 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 Lettice Cooper
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Helen Oyeyemi
Bloomsbury in London and Penguin in New York published HO 's second novel, The Opposite House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Nadine Gordimer
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.
Publishing 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.
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, 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...
Publishing J. K. Rowling
Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency , where it was noticed by Bryony Evans , who had the job of opening the post. The...
Publishing Anita Desai
A Penguin edition appeared the following year.
Publishing Jennifer Johnston
This novel was made into a film in 1988.In 1993 it was published by Penguin as retold by Kieran McGovern .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Monica Dickens
It had a Penguin edition the following year.
Publishing Mary Renault
When MR received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane , the hardback division of Penguin . After the death of...
Publishing Julia Strachey
The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge , by Virginia Woolf 's description of painter Henry Lamb as nipped, like a man on a pier.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
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In 1978, when Penguin Books
Publishing Carol Shields
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1991 with Happenstance and under the overall title of the earlier book, with the two originally separate novels titled The Husband's Story and The Wife's Story. North American...
Publishing Margaret Mead
She did her research during eight months spent in Samoa, during which she learned the language, conducted interviews, and was chosen the taupou, or ceremonial virgin representative of a village she stayed at.
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp.
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Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin, 1986.
Drabble, Margaret. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman. Penguin, 2011.
Drabble, Margaret. The Middle Ground. Penguin, 1981.
Drabble, Margaret. The Radiant Way. Penguin, 1988.
Drabble, Margaret. The Realms of Gold. Penguin, 1977.
Drabble, Margaret. The Sea Lady. Penguin, 2006.
Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin, 1971.
Duffy, Carol Ann et al. Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin, 1995.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. The Pool in the Desert. Penguin, 1984.
Dunmore, Helen. House of Orphans. Penguin, 2006.
Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Penguin, 1997.
Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Editor Cave, Terence, Penguin, 1995.
Eliot, T. S. Selected Prose. Editor Hayward, John Davy, Penguin, 1963.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Hello Mum. Penguin, 2010.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Mr Loverman. Penguin, 2013.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Soul Tourists. Penguin, 2006.
Evaristo, Bernardine. The Emperor’s Babe. Penguin, 2002.
Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall. Penguin, 1997.
Ford, Boris, editor. A Guide for Readers to The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Penguin, 1984.
Fortune, Mary, and Judith Brett. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune. Editor Sussex, Lucy, Penguin, 1989.
Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford; Cousin Phillis. Editor Keating, Peter John, Penguin, 1986.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Gothic Tales. Editor Kranzler, Laura, Penguin, 2000.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Shelston, Alan, Penguin, 1975.