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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Bannerman
One result of the offence given by Little Black Sambo has been a series of recastings designed to censor its unacceptable aspects. Fred Marcellino produced new illustrations for an edition published by HarperCollins in New...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
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Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton
Publishing Elinor Glyn
Harper published the novel in the USA in the same year, as Red Hair.
Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson, 1968.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Publishing Ethel Wilson
The US edition of Swamp Angel was published by Harper's at the same time as the Canadian edition. During negotiations over it, Harper's readers felt that the story was too slight and that too many...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
RM 's novel Dangerous Ages was published by Collins , who became from now on her sole publisher for fiction.
Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
In summer 1934 ESVM 's former lover George Dillon began translating Charles Baudelaire . The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...
Publishing Catherine Gore
Another forerunner, whether or not she was conscious of it, was Biography of a Spaniel, included by the obscure Mrs Showes in a collection of short fiction translated from German, called Interesting Tales...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
This was the first of her fourteen books published by Collins (for whom her lover Gerald O'Donovan worked). Gerald, however, seems not to have been involved personally with her books.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968.
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Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
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Publishing Deborah Moggach
She began writing this novel in Pakistan, and got half-way through before her return to England, where she completed it during her baby son's sleeping time.
Sanderson, Caroline. “Deborah Moggach interview”. Mslexia, No. 55, pp. 51-3.
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She calls it a coming-of-age, autobiographical novel...
Publishing Agatha Christie
Agatha Miller (later AC ) wrote and published (under various pseudonyms) her first poems while she was about eleven. She was paid a guinea for each poem by Poetry Review. Her earliest verses have...
Publishing Catherine Gore
Also in 1846 CG edited for publication The Queen of Denmark, An Historical Novel, a literal translation from Danish by A. N. de St Aubain of Gamle Minder 's historical novel.
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, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
It was reprinted...
Publishing Hope Mirrlees
HM 's friend Virginia Woolf noted in a letter that Mirrlees took some years to write her first novel, and then (no doubt because of its lesbian theme) had it refused by six or seven...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
To produce this work RM conducted extensive research in both London and Lisbon (which she visited in 1943, able to go because it was a neutral country, but dogged by illness while she was there)...
Publishing E. Nesbit
EN 's novel The Incredible Honeymoon was issued in New York by Harper and Brothers ; it did not find an English publisher until 1921.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive, http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Timeline

1875
Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland Menzies) issued a History of France for Junior Classes.
1876
Elizabeth Stone , under the pseudonym of Sutherland Menzies, published a volume in Collins 's School Series, entitled History of Germany for Junior Classes.
1877
The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland Menzies issued under her pseudonym a two history books this year in the CollinsSchool Series.
29 December 1940
St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...
1963
Collins published Patricia Moyes 's detectivenovelMurder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club .
January 1974
Collins published The Property of a Gentleman, a novel by Catherine Gaskin .
1983
The title of Maggie Ross 's novelMilena, published by Collins , refers to Kafka 's mistress Milena Jesenská .
23 September 2010
The British edition appeared of US author Jonathan Franzen 's latest novel, Freedom. Within a couple of weeks the edition had to be pulped.
Brown, Derek. “Week in Britain. A mistake of genius”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
14 July 2015
Harper Lee 's first-written but rejected novel, Go Set a Watchman, reached print from HarperCollins . It is set later in the lives of characters in her wildly successful and so far only novel,...

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