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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF contributed to the Penguin series Lives of Modern Women her short biography Bessie Smith.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published Voices at Play: Stories and Ear-pieces: this collects short stories but also four ear-pieces, or radio plays.
The Penguin edition, 1966, drops the subtitle.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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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
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Sales of the novel were slow until it was published in 1969 by Penguin , when things changed. Julia Briggs observes that with VW 's popularity still growing, even a neglected novel now commands substantial sales.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. Allen Lane, 2005.
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Textual Production Alice Munro
AM provided a retrospection on her career with Selected Stories, published by Knopf and by Penguin , which includes twenty-eight pieces from the whole span of her writing so far.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
584
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Textual Production Muriel Spark
Early in 2001 the octogenarian Spark was working on a play, as well as the novel that became The Finishing School (which was re-issued in Penguin paperback in 2005).
Moir, Jan. “Dame plays detective”. Edmonton Journal, 28 Jan. 2000, p. E13.
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Textual Production Alice Munro
This was re-issued by Penguin Canada in 2007 under the title Away from Her: Stories, with a foreword by Sarah Polley . This title comes from what was by now the most famous piece...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
JW was one of the contributors to Penguin 's A Fairy Tale Revolution when it launched in October 2020, with Hansel and Greta.
Textual Production Muriel Spark
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, 1997.
title-page
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur appeared under this...
Textual Production Edna O'Brien
EOB published James Joyce as one of the Penguin Lives biography series.
O’Brien, Edna. James Joyce. First American Edition, Viking Penguin, 1999.
prelims
Textual Production Dorothy Whipple
DW published her second novel, High Wages (re-issued by Penguin in 1946, among John Murray 's Guild Books in 1952, and by Chivers Press in 1978).
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

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Texts

Spark, Muriel. The Hothouse by the East River. Penguin, 1975.
Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin, 1966.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
Stein, Gertrude, and Elizabeth Sprigge. Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures: 1909-1945. Editor Meyerowitz, Patricia, Penguin, 1971.
Stevenson, John, 1946 -. British Society, 1914-45. Penguin, 1984.
Strachey, Julia. Two Short Novels: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding; and, An Integrated Man. Penguin, 1978.
Sussex, Lucy. “’Shrouded in Mystery’: Waif Wander (Mary Fortune)”. A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin, 1988, pp. 117-31.
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. xii - xxiii.
Taylor, Ina. Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life. Penguin, 1990.
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin, 1968.
Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin, 1980.
Tey, Josephine. The Daughter of Time. Penguin, 1954.
Tey, Josephine. The Franchise Affair. Penguin, 1951.
Geoffrey of Monmouth,. The History of the Kings of Britain. Translator Thorpe, Lewis, Penguin, 1966.
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin, 1984.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin, 1983.
Warner, Marina, and Clare Boylan. “Rich Pickings”. The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, Penguin, 1993, pp. 27-33.
Weldon, Fay. Polaris. Penguin, 1989.
Weldon, Fay. Rebecca West. Penguin, 1985.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
Winterson, Jeanette. The Stone Gods. Penguin, 2007.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction and Notes”. Helbeck of Bannisdale, edited by Brian Worthington, Penguin, 1983, pp. 9 - 27, 391.