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Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Harper rejected this novel, and it came out pseudonymously from Coward-McCann as The Price of Salt. A paperback followed in 1953, in which the work sold more than a million.
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
Publishing Agatha Christie
She had sent the manuscript to Collins , who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable.
qtd. in
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
263
She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork , to search for another publisher. Heinemann signed...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
She was working on Epitaph for the Race of Man at Cap d'Antibes in March this year.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
376-7
She wanted Harper to print this book and Huntsman, What Quarry? together as a two-volume set, but...
Publishing Emma Robinson
An edition in 188 pages, double column, was issued by Harper and Brothers of NewYork in 1864 as The Maid of Orleans, A Romantic Chronicle.
Publishing Nina Bawden
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...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
qtd. in
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
128
After writing and publishing an...
Publishing Agatha Christie
AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.
qtd. in
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte, 1984.
392
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
A decade or more after publication Cass Canfield at Harper proposed changing the name Aeolus to Ixion in Epitaph for the Race of Man: Millay, he suggested, had got her mythology wrong. She sent...
Publishing Queen Victoria
An American edition of the book was printed later that same year by Harper and Brothers .
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Harper and Brothers, 1868.
i
It was widely translated (including versions in Marathi, Hindi, and Gujerati reflecting the queen's popularity in India)...
Publishing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Harper edition (1894) was titled Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs. Harper and Brothers, 1895.
title-page
Publishing Sybille Bedford
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...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Her first version (in which she felt she gave too much space to the prison part of the book) was rejected by Harper and Row . They rejected the second version, too, demanding that either...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
Her contract, signed in January, was for this and a further untitled work. She was to have an advance of $1,000 on delivering each manuscript, and a 15-percent royalty rising to 20 percent after 5,000...
Publishing Alison Uttley
Later, however, Collins took Little Grey Rabbit on, and AU 's happy partnership with William Collins was launched with Squirrel Goes Skating, 1934. It continued through Little Grey Rabbit's Party, 1936; The Knot...
Reception Charlotte Guest
Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey : many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere...

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