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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...
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
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 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, pp. 23-4.
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All the Philippa Carr novels were published by Putnam in the USA...
Textual Production Rebecca Harding Davis
RHD 's final novel, published by Harper , was entitled Frances Waldeaux.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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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.
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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 Agatha Christie
AC introduced a second famous detective character, the unobtrusive elderly spinster Miss Marple, in a novel entitled The Murder at the Vicarage, published by Collins with a dedication To Rosalind, her daughter.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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.
2525 (23 June 1950): 385
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
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 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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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...

Timeline

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

Women writers item

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...

Women writers item

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...

Women writers item

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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