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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.

She wrote this book nearly twenty years after the experiences on which she based it, and not long after her husband died. With it she switched publishers for her novels, from Duckworth to Collins ...

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...

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. She calls it a coming-of-age, autobiographical novel...

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. It was reprinted...

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)...

EN 's novel The Incredible Honeymoon was issued in New York by Harper and Brothers ; it did not find an English publisher until 1921.

VSW published English Country Houses, illustrated both in colour and black-and-white, in Collins 's Britain in Pictures series, the brainchild of her lover Hilda Matheson .

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...

This book was published in New York at the same time by Harper and Brothers .

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...

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...

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...

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?

When the book was published, NB received a letter from her old headmistress reproving her more in sorrow than in anger for having used the name of one of the school's Jewish refugees for a...