STW
received £542 in royalties that September from her American publisher, the Viking Press
, but only half that amount from Chatto and Windus
in England.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
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Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 277
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Iris Murdoch
She dedicated it to Arnoldo Momigliano
, an Italian-Jewish philosopher with whom she had had an affair, and had remained friends. She repelled an effort by Carmen Callil
(who had just succeeded Norah Smallwood
at...
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Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie
was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review, 8 July 2013.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
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Elspeth Huxley
EH
's book on her daily life in the form of a diary,
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
391
titled (from a remark of seventeenth-century local historian John Aubrey
) Gallipot Eyes, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
after...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto and Windus
requested her to take out a passage in which a fisherman declares his love for another man, but she scornfully refused to withdraw the passage and even altered it to make the...
In about 1935 EH
began to plan a book purely about the Africans, which would be in large part an argument against the anti-colonial views of Margery Perham
.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
124
She planned it in the...
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Vernon Lee
The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophicburlesque,
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, pp. 6-27.
15
was commissioned after Constance Smedley
and Maxwell Armfield
invited VL
to speak at one of their Chelsea political meetings held to discuss the causes of...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
It was dedicated to Stone's wife, Janet. The first edition contained sixteen engravings and sixteen poems. Ruari McLean of The Monotype Corporation
designed it as a specimen for a new typeface (Dante Roman and Italic)...
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Barbara Pym
Both Cape
and Chatto and Windus
rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan
after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...
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Elspeth Huxley
Harold Macmillan
argued that readers would find EH
's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
It had already been serialized in the Lady's Pictorial from 23 January to 30 April this year.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
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Chatto and Windus
offered EHD
thirty-five pounds for the book, and wanted her to put her own...