Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Muriel Spark
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...
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Muriel Spark
Early in 2001 the octogenarian Spark was working on a play, as well as the novel that became The Finishing School (which was re-issued in Penguin
paperback in 2005).
Moir, Jan. “Dame plays detective”. Edmonton Journal, p. E13.
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Muriel Spark
Another collection of previously published work appeared in 1997 from New Directions Press
as Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories.
Spark, Muriel. Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories. New Directions.
title-page
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur appeared under this...
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Ali Smith
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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Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books
published a volume of ES
's Selected Poems in which wartime and post-war work
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 329
is dominant, with a short Early Poems section at the end.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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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...
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Mary Shelley
Laurette's parents were not married to each other: they were living under the Wollstonecraftian
names of Mr and Mrs Mason because Lord Mountcashel would not divorce his wife to allow her to marry George Henry Tighe
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Kamila Shamsie
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...
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick
This novel saw both a second New York edition (revised by CMS
) and a London edition in the year of its first publication. It was soon reprinted with some of Sedgwick's short fictions, and...
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Her translation, commissioned by Penguin
, made a double volume in the Penguin Classics. It had diagrams by C. W. Scott-Giles
, notes, commentaries, a glossary, a dedication to the dead master of the...
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Vita Sackville-West
VSW
had prepared for writing this by travelling to places in France connected with the story.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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...
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