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Publishing Isak Dinesen
Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...
Publishing Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner, later TO , was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer , founders of...
Publishing Bessie Head
Toni Morrison in her capacity as an editor at Random House annoyed BH by wanting to classify these two as young people's books.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
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Then in early 1979 Heinemann (the last publisher that could...
Publishing Laura Riding
She had begun writing this on Mallorca, before the Spanish Civil War. It was the first of her books to be published in New York by her new US publisher, Random House , and...
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
Its early working title was The Deep Blue Sea. She mentioned it as work in progress to Terence Rattigan , who thought it a very good title indeed. She later wrote that she liked...
Publishing Kathleen Jamie
KJ published with Random House of Toronto her book The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Maya Angelou
She found it hard to write this volume, to reconcile her desire to write something uplifting with such painful material as the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King , race riots, and the...
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA published with Random House in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber in London the following year.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Carson McCullers
She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House to publish...
Reception Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span&gt”;. Daily Telegraph.
(11 July 1974)
Textual Features Mavis Gallant
MG was working on a biography of Alfred Dreyfus when she developed the idea for Linnet Muir. The biography, which she abandoned and burned after decades of work, had been commissioned by Random House after...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence was published in two volumes by W. H. Allen , edited by W. Hepworth Dixon and Geraldine Jewsbury .
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
prelims
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1832 (6 December 1862): 725-8
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
GS published Portraits and Prayers, a collection of old and new writing, with Random House in New York.
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
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Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Random House published GS 's operaFour Saints in Three Acts. The same day it opened magnificently on Broadway, performed by an all black cast, to music by Virgil Thomson .
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
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Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
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Textual Production Toni Morrison
In her capacity as editor at Random House , TM edited and published an anthology entitled The Black Book, an iconoclastic, archival look at black life in the USA, whose cover features a...

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Texts

Brookner, Anita. Falling Slowly. Random House, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Random House, 1996.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Byrne, Paula. Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson. Random House, 2006.
Carson, Anne. Plainwater. Random House, 1995.
Dinesen, Isak. Ehrengard. Random House, 1962.
Dinesen, Isak. The Angelic Avengers. Random House, 1946.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House, 1969.
Gallant, Mavis. The Pegnitz Junction. Random House, 1973.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
Jamie, Kathleen. The Golden Peak. Random House, 1990.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
McCarthy, Mary. The Oasis. Random House, 1949.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
Schapiro, Leonard Bertram. Turgenev, His Life and Times. Random House, 1978.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House, 2004.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II. Random House, 2004.
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989.
Stead, Christina. Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife). Random House, 1976.
Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. Random House, 1937.
Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude. Ida. Random House, 1941.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.