AC
's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...
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...
Publishing
Muriel Jaeger
This book was reprinted as a Penguin
paperback in 1967 as Before Victoria. Changing Standards and Behaviour, 1787-1837.
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.
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
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.
111
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.
168
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...
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...
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
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Texts
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
Moggach, Deborah. To Have and to Hold. Penguin, 1986.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. Penguin, 1979.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Penguin, 1990.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
O’Faolain, Julia. Daughters of Passion. Penguin, 1982.
Oakley, Ann. From Here to Maternity: Becoming a Mother. Penguin, 1981.
Oakley, Ann, and Juliet Mitchell, editors. The Rights and Wrongs of Women. Penguin, 1976.
Oyeyemi, Helen. The Opposite House. Penguin, 2007.
Pepys, Samuel. The Shorter Pepys. Editor Latham, Robert, Penguin, 1987.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
Prebble, John. The Highland Clearances. Penguin, 1969.
Prince, Mary. “The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave”. The Classic Slave Narratives, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Penguin, 1987, pp. 183-38.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.
Quennell, Peter. Byron in Italy. Penguin, 1955.
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. “Editorial Materials”. The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse, translated by. Betty Radice, Penguin, 1974.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Poems and Prose, edited by Kathleen Raine, Penguin, 1957, pp. 9-17.
Rendell, Ruth. The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy. Penguin, 1998.