Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir
, introduced MO
to William Blackwood
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 13, 247-8 |
Publishing | P. L. Travers | The book was first published in London by Collins
, followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | This was published by Harper
in three distinct editions: the trade edition priced at two dollars, a limited edition of 500 autographed and numbered copies at fifteen dollars (for which Millay apparently refused the title... |
Publishing | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Hoping that fiction would be more successful than another book on metaphysics, ABB
stepped away from philosophy and theology to try her hand at storytelling. Originally she submitted the novel to the literary magazine Harper's... |
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. 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 | 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... |
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, p. between pp. 12 and 13. between 12 and 13 |
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. 376-7 |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The book was first published by George H. Doran
in New York and two years later by Collins
in London. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press. 128 |
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 | Emma Frances Brooke | By June 14, 1884, an American edition appeared in New York, published by Harper and Brothers
(which oddly published simultaneously another novel with a similar title: A Country Maid by F. W. Robinson
)... |
Publishing | Rebecca Harding Davis | |
Publishing | Alison Uttley | This book caused AU
much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she... |
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... |
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