Penguin

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Textual Production Nadine Gordimer
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...
Reception Augusta Gregory
In 1995 Penguin published a volume of AG 's selected writings, edited by Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen Waters , circulating her work to a wider audience. That year also saw the launch of the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
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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Gates, Henry Louis, and Henry Louis Gates, editors. “Introduction”. The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987, p. ix - xviii.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
George Savile, Marquess of Halifax,. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Penguin, 1996.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin, 1992.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995.
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.