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Publishing | P. L. Travers | The book was first published in London by Collins
, followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press
. |
Publishing | George Orwell | GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
). Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams, 1977. 41 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Frances Browne | Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie
recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | 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... |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | At her agent's suggestion MG
had left Heinemann
(which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo
, the literary imprint of HarperCollins
. This was to... |
Publishing | E. M. Delafield | In 1931, Harper
brought out an illustrated American edition with drawings by Arthur Watts
and an introduction by Mary Borden
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo
. But after the first book, Lost Children, the head... |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | |
Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's next novel Iseulte (issued as by the author of Véra), appeared in both England and the US, published by Smith, Elder, and Co.
and Harper and Brothers
respectively. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | Harper
published the novel in the USA in the same year, as Red Hair. Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson, 1968. 107 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | 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. Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968. 356 Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 148 |
Publishing | Penelope Fitzgerald |
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