John Gray
attempted to persuade the New York division of Macmillan
to publish the two novellas together in an American edition, but the company thought that two novellas had even less of a market than...
Textual Production
Ethel Wilson
EW
first mentioned the story in a letter to John Gray
in December, 1951. At this point she called the story Country Manners. Another early version entitled Sweet Influence Doth Impart remained part of...