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
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...
Publishing
Betty Miller
Six months before publication she visited Freya Stark
to see the Browning house at Asolo.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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Publishing
Margaret Mead
She did her research during eight months spent in Samoa, during which she learned the language, conducted interviews, and was chosen the taupou, or ceremonial virgin representative of a village she stayed at.
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp.
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Anthologization
Medbh McGuckian
MMG
has been invited to contribute poems to many anthologies. Early in her career, her work was included in the influential Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison
and Andrew Motion
and published by...
Material Conditions of Writing
Una Marson
In the 1950s, UM
struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf
, but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...
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Textual Production
Shena Mackay
SM
published with Penguin
a short-story collection, Death by Art Deco.
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Literary responses
Rose Macaulay
The book did well in Britain (the Times Literary Supplement called it in many respects a brilliant piece of work),
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
197
but it sank with scarcely a ripple in the USA.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana.
Published by Penguin
, this book reproduces on its cover a portrait of LL
by Claudia Petretti
. The volume was reprinted twice in two years for a total of 8,500 copies.
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 170-91.
177
Textual Production
Liz Lochhead
The production, which marked the 400th anniversary of Mary Stuart's beheading, transferred to the Donmar Warehouse
in London in September. It was copyrighted in 1988 and published by Penguin
along with Dracula in August 1989.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
239-240
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 170-91.
176
Publishing
Deborah Levy
This was reissued by Penguin
together with Beautiful Mutants and under the title Early Levy, 2014. The combination was reprinted by Bloomsbury Publishing
the next year as Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels.
Levy, Deborah. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels. Bloomsbury.
Publishing
Deborah Levy
Levy says she began writing this reluctantly. I didn't really want to go back in my mind to that cruel society, to waiting for Dad to come back.
Chunn, Louise. “Deborah Levy interview”. Mslexia, No. 58, pp. 51-3.
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The result was reprinted early the...
Publishing
Doris Lessing
She wrote this novel in Africa, and brought the manuscript with her to England.
Fishburn, Katherine. Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press.
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As she noted later, there was at this date little modern fiction about Africa.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
327
When an illustrated edition did appear...
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Kingsley, Mary. A Hippo Banquet. Penguin, 2015.
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