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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.
qtd. in
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 Vita Sackville-West
She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore , too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which...
Publishing Isabella Neil Harwood
This book was published in New York at the same time by Harper and Brothers .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 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 Agatha Christie
After publishing her first novel, John Lane held rights to her next five books: The Secret Adversary (1922), The Murder on the Links (1923), The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), Poirot Investigates (1924), and...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
The title of A Few Figs from Thistles is a mischievous reversal of Christ 's rhetorical question: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
“The Bible, King James Version: Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha, 1611”. University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center, Printed by Robert Barker.
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Publishing J. K. Rowling
Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency , where it was noticed by Bryony Evans , who had the job of opening the post. The...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
This was published by Harper in three distinct editions: the trade edition priced at two dollars, a limited edition of 500 autographed and numbered copies at fifteen dollars (for which Millay apparently refused the title...
Publishing Doreen Wallace
DW 's next novel, Creatures of an Hour, which also appeared in 1933 (title adapted from a love-poem by Keats ), was her last before she switched, in 1934, her publisher from Ernest Benn
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Publishing F. Mabel Robinson
This appeared in the same year from Harper's of New York as number 62 in Harper's Handy series.
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 Patricia Highsmith
Harper rejected this novel, and it came out pseudonymously from Coward-McCann as The Price of Salt. A paperback followed in 1953, in which the work sold more than a million.
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13

Timeline

1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...

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1875

Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland Menzies) issued a History of France for Junior Classes.
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1876: Elizabeth Stone, under the pseudonym of Sutherland...

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1876

Elizabeth Stone , under the pseudonym of Sutherland Menzies, published a volume in Collins 's School Series, entitled History of Germany for Junior Classes.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1877: The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland...

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1877

The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland Menzies issued under her pseudonym a two history books this year in the CollinsSchool Series.
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.

29 December 1940: St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an...

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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 detective...

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1963

Collins published Patricia Moyes 's detective novel Murder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

January 1974: Collins published The Property of a Gentleman,...

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January 1974

Collins published The Property of a Gentleman, a novel by Catherine Gaskin .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...

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1983

The title of Maggie Ross 's novel Milena, published by Collins , refers to Kafka 's mistress Milena Jesenská .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

23 September 2010: The British edition appeared of US author...

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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, 8 Oct. 2010, p. 16.

14 July 2015: Harper Lee's first-written but rejected novel,...

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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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