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EH published East Africa for Collins 's British Commonwealth in Pictures series, launched by Hilda Matheson and Dorothy Wellesley .

She found anthologising hard work, with books (most of them disappointing) pouring in from the library with deadline dates of return. She needed to select, photocopy, order and re-order her growing mountain of material, and...

Two days before her seventy-fifth birthday, DL published, with HarperCollins , Under My Skin, a first volume of autobiography.

RM 's novel Dangerous Ages was published by Collins , who became from now on her sole publisher for fiction.

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.

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)...

Harper had wanted the volume to include her preface and two or three new, unpublished sonnets. Producing either of these caused her much anguish. She failed to finish the preface, and felt sure that her...

Towards the end of 1946 ESVM began writing poetry again after years of silence and drug addiction. She published some strong sonnets and other poems in journals, but she declined suggestions from Harper (who, in...

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...

Millay asked Harper to make the printed version a big flat book perhaps 14 by 10 with many colored illustrations . . . . a Christmas gift book and as gaudy as a Christmas tree...

In summer 1934 ESVM 's former lover George Dillon began translating Charles Baudelaire . The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...

ESVM 's highly political, anti-isolationist poetry volume Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook was rushed into print by Harper with unusual speed.

ESVM 's poem There Are No Islands, Any More, urging Americans to join the war in Europe, was issued as a separate booklet of ten pages by Harper through the Haddon Press .

Flowers of Evil by George Dillon and ESVM , their translation of Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du Mal, was published by Harper . Individual poems bore the initials of one or other or both translators.

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?