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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...

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...

CS became a journalist as well as a dramatist. She contributed toThe Girl's Realm, edited by Violet Alcock , and wrote a series of articles for the St James's Gazette under the...

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...

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...

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.

Collins re-issued this title in their Evergreen Library series in 1965. This book, set in the noisy, grimy, community-minded South London which NS knew from air-raid work during the war, was followed by a sequel,...

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...

She had sent the manuscript to Collins , who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable. She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork , to search for another publisher. Heinemann signed...

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

AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...

She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...