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The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...

One result of the offence given by Little Black Sambo has been a series of recastings designed to censor its unacceptable aspects. Fred Marcellino produced new illustrations for an edition published by HarperCollins in New...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

Harper published the novel in the USA in the same year, as Red Hair.

The US edition of Swamp Angel was published by Harper's at the same time as the Canadian edition. During negotiations over it, Harper's readers felt that the story was too slight and that too many...

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

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...

Another forerunner, whether or not she was conscious of it, was Biography of a Spaniel, included by the obscure Mrs Showes in a collection of short fiction translated from German, called Interesting Tales...

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.

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...

Agatha Miller (later AC ) wrote and published (under various pseudonyms) her first poems while she was about eleven. She was paid a guinea for each poem by Poetry Review. Her earliest verses have...

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)...