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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 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.
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Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC published with Collins and Dodd, Mead a Miss Marple murder mystery entitled A Murder is Announced (a title parodying the form of newspaper announcement for births, marriages, and deaths).
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's Miss Marple made her final appearance in the detective novel Sleeping Murder, published by Collins and Dodd, Mead , but written thirty years earlier.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3892 (15 October 1976): 1307
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Maude Royden
The next of MR 's religious works was Prayer as a Force, 1922, followed by Beauty in Religion in 1923, in which she writes of the central role that beauty plays in her faith:...
Textual Production Roma White
RW published, under this name and for six shillings through Harper and Brothers , 'Twixt Town and Country. A Book of Suburban Gardening.
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.
Textual Production Agatha Christie
With Collins , AC published Murder on the Orient Express, a detective novel featuring a radical experiment in plotting,
Lanchester, John. “The Case of Agatha Christie”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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with Poirot on a train travelling from Istanbul to Calais.
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1667 (11 January 1934): 29
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
She struggled in the same way in spring 1941 over her preface to her Collected Sonnets which was forthcoming from Harper . She tried to explain the nature of the sonnet as she now understood...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Signing herself Mary Westmacott, AC published with Collins a novel entitled Giant's Bread, which is not a detective story or thriller: it deals with reversals of fortune, longing for ancestral homes, and trials of love.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Textual Production Doris Lessing
Two days before her seventy-fifth birthday, DL published, with HarperCollins , Under My Skin, a first volume of autobiography.
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4776 (14 October 1994): 37
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Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's An Autobiography was published posthumously by Collins , edited by her daughter, Rosalind Hicks .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3946 (11 November 1977): 1312
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began on Challenge in May 1918, early in her affair with Violet, and wrote most of it in Monte Carlo when the two were there together, reading it to Violet in the evenings for...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson 's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver ,
Here...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES contributed English Women to Collins 's Britain in Pictures book series, which had been launched by the late Hilda Matheson as much-needed wartime propaganda.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...

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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.

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.

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.

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 detectivenovelMurder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club .

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 .

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

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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...

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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, 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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