She had spent three months in Kenya studying this system set up by the colonial power to exchange tribal land tenure for individual ownership: an attempt to rehabilitate or revitalise African agriculture—in effect, to repair...
Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
In the USAJohn Willey
of Morrow
made an error of judgement in supposing the book was, in American terms, a specialist, small-sale one. He agreed to take 2,500 copies of the British edition, but...
Publishing
Margery Allingham
MA
's last completed novel, The Mind Readers, appeared in the USA (from Morrow
's instead of, as previously, Doubleday
's); English publication followed in late October.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
219
Publishing
Enid Bagnold
EB
completed her novel about childbirth entitled The Squire, which was published the following year by Heinemann
in London and Morrow
in New York.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
135
Textual Production
Elspeth Huxley
EH
's first idea for a title, All Bitches Fight, was decisively rejected by her US publisher, Morrow
. Love Among the Daughters came out in an edition of 7,500, with another from Foyle's Quality Book Club
Textual Production
Mary Renault
Her London publisher, Longman
, was not enthusiastic, and did not publish it for more than eighteen months. Morrow
in New York published it in 1948.
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
115, 310
Textual Production
Mary Renault
MR
's US publisher Morrow
refused outright to publish the novel, fearing prosecution because of the contemporary persecutions of homosexuals in the United States under McCarthyism. Homosexuals in that era were considered sexual perverts and...
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Texts
Allingham, Margery. The Mind Readers. Morrow, 1965.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Out of India: Selected Stories. Morrow, 1986.
Morrison, Toni. “Recitatif”. Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, Morrow, 1983, pp. 243-61.