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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.
68
H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
68-9
and William James wrote to tell her that it was...
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.
10
Publishing 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...
Textual Production 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.
E13
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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.
69-70
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...
Textual Production 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
Occupation 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...
Publishing 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...
Textual Production 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...
Publishing 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.
5: 441 and n3
She dedicated it to her niece Philippa St Aubyn .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
283
She intended to publish...
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...
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...

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Texts

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.