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Reception Agatha Christie
In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...
Reception Charlotte Guest
Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey : many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere...
Reception Ethel Wilson
John Gray attempted to persuade the New York division of Macmillan to publish the two novellas together in an American edition, but the company thought that two novellas had even less of a market than...
Reception Ethel Wilson
Lilly's Story was translated into German and published in Switzerland in 1952, entitled simply Lilly. This was also the title for the Danish edition which appeared in 1954. Both stories were published in an...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
NB 's first novel, Who Calls the Tune, was published by Collins . It was a detective story or crime novel, a kind of climbing frame within which I could write about the things that interested me.
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.
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago, 1995.
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Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
PH published the last of her novels written while she lived in the United States, and the last published with Harper and Row , The Cry of the Owl.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Textual Production Agatha Christie
Collins and Dodd, Mead falsely advertised this as AC 's fiftieth mystery novel, when it was in actual fact her fiftieth book. They ran an enormous 50,000 copies of the novel and widely celebrated the...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW told a journalist during the 1970s that she had published under the name of Mary Crossley. This author name appears in library catalogues of the period for only one novel, titled (from a...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
Despite JP 's attention to the market, none of the books she published as Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, or Ellalice Tate made it to bestseller status. This left her stumped. The American agent Patricia Myrer
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
She had struggled to finish this novel in the final months of her illness.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Appointed her literary executor, Vera Brittain saw it through to publication after WH 's death, correcting the typescript and delivering...
Textual Production Joseph Conrad
JC 's autobiography, A Personal Record, was published by Harper and Brothers in New York.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press, 1969.
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Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU rewrote it for eventual publication by Collins . She sent a set of the Little Grey Rabbit books as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth in 1947 (and had, she said, a charming thank-you...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
Under this name she went on to publish fourteen in this matrilineal-family-saga which combines Plaidyish historical interest with Holtesque plot and melodrama.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4.
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All the Philippa Carr novels were published by Putnam in the USA...
Textual Production Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH and Langston Hughes composed the play Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts. It was published by HarperPerennial in 1991.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
She worked in various ways, too, to encourage and promote younger writers, including her relative Georgiana Craik , the authors of a Harper 's series of books for girls that she endorsed, and the working-class...

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