Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4.
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Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | She worked in various ways, too, to encourage and promote younger writers, including her relative Georgiana Craik
, the authors of a Harper
's series of books for girls that she endorsed, and the working-class... |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | AU
rewrote it for eventual publication by Collins
. She sent a set of the Little Grey Rabbit books as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth
in 1947 (and had, she said, a charming thank-you... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Under this name she went on to publish fourteen in this matrilineal-family-saga which combines Plaidyish historical interest with Holtesque plot and melodrama. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Textual Production | Rebecca Harding Davis | |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
introduced a second famous detective character, the unobtrusive elderly spinster Miss Marple, in a novel entitled The Murder at the Vicarage, published by Collins
with a dedication To Rosalind, her daughter. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1501 (11 June 1930): 921 |
Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | She had struggled to finish this novel in the final months of her illness. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 316 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
published with Collins
and Dodd, Mead
a Miss Marple murder mystery entitled A Murder is Announced (a title parodying the form of newspaper announcement for births, marriages, and deaths). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2525 (23 June 1950): 385 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 70 |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
told a journalist during the 1970s that she had published under the name of Mary Crossley. This author name appears in library catalogues of the period for only one novel, titled (from a... |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
and Langston Hughes
composed the play Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts. It was published by HarperPerennial
in 1991. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 61 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
's Miss Marple made her final appearance in the detective novel Sleeping Murder, published by Collins
and Dodd, Mead
, but written thirty years earlier. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3892 (15 October 1976): 1307 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 81 |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | The next of MR
's religious works was Prayer as a Force, 1922, followed by Beauty in Religion in 1923, in which she writes of the central role that beauty plays in her faith:... |
Textual Production | Roma White | RW
published, under this name and for six shillings through Harper and Brothers
, 'Twixt Town and Country. A Book of Suburban Gardening. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | With Collins
, AC
published Murder on the Orient Express, a detective novel featuring a radical experiment in plotting, Lanchester, John. “The Case of Agatha Christie”. London Review of Books, Vol. 40 , No. 24, pp. 3-8. 5 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1667 (11 January 1934): 29 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research. 76 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | Signing herself Mary Westmacott, AC
published with Collins
a novel entitled Giant's Bread, which is not a detective story or thriller: it deals with reversals of fortune, longing for ancestral homes, and trials of love. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 167-8 |
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