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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Ella D'Arcy
The full English title was Ariel: A Shelley Romance. In July 1935 this translation became the first Penguin
paperback ever published.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
59392 (10 May 1975): 9
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Ruth Padel
RP
joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy
(1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society
in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...
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Nadine Gordimer
In 1992 Penguin
re-issued her short-story volumes Jump, and Other Short Stories and Crimes of Conscience.
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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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Beatrix Potter
Today the once gentleman-like, personal, and family publishing firm of Frederick Warne
has become the property of an international conglomerate, Pearson
, which owns Penguin
, Longman
, Ladybird
, tv and software development companies...
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Anne Stevenson
This project had begun with AS
's draft of a brief introduction to the work of Plath, written for the PenguinModern Women series and read in manuscript by Plath's widower, Ted Hughes
. He...
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.
96-7
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
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.
393
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.
In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and...
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Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
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George Savile, Marquess of Halifax,. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
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.