In 1992 Penguin
re-issued her short-story volumes Jump, and Other Short Stories and Crimes of Conscience.
Literary responses
Germaine Greer
A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
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The Penguin
paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
Literary responses
Germaine Greer
Greer professed herself deeply anxious about the reviews.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
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The Penguin
paperback edition, however, quoted on its cover Anita Brookner
in the Observer calling this a brave book,Anthony Storr
in the Independent describing it...
Despite positive reviews by Lorna Sage
in The Observer Review and Geoffrey Elborn
in Guardian Weekly, Brooks Peters
in Out says that the novel was not well received in England. However, the year...
Author summary
Patricia Highsmith
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...
Publishing
Patricia Highsmith
The book germinated four more novels: Ripley Under Ground, 1970; Ripley's Game, 1974 (of which a film by Liliana Cavani
was released in 2003, with John Malkovich
as the protagonist); The Boy Who...
Reception
Hildegarde of Bingen
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...
Textual Production
Susan Hill
SH
edited a selection of Thomas Hardy
for Penguin
in 1979: The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales; it includes her introduction and notes. She has written new introductions for two novels by F. M. Mayor
Publishing
Constance Holme
Late in life CH
wrote, it is not easy for a woman to be the simple and natural devotée of an art as a man can. I have had to be house wife, agent's...
Reception
Constance Holme
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the respectful reviews granted CH
's work during her lifetime in such influential journals as the Athenæum, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. She...
Publishing
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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...
Reception
Elspeth Huxley
This book was a great success. It was twice reprinted before the outbreak of the second world war interrupted its career; in 1999 it was issued in Penguin
's Twentieth Century World Classics series. EH
Publishing
Muriel Jaeger
This book was reprinted as a Penguin
paperback in 1967 as Before Victoria. Changing Standards and Behaviour, 1787-1837.
Publishing
F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
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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.
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Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.
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Jolley, Elizabeth. Mr. Scobie’s Riddle. Penguin, 1983.