The first edition, by Viking Press
in New York, was issued in two-volume boxed sets.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
12-13
Geoff Dyer
, in his introduction to the Canongate
edition of 2006, notes West's probing of the painful...
Publishing
Rebecca West
Over the next two decades RW
published several revised and updated versions of this work. In 1956 Pan Books
(London) published a new edition of The Meaning of Treason in which West eliminated some discussion...
Publishing
Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
received £542 in royalties that September from her American publisher, the Viking Press
, but only half that amount from Chatto and Windus
in England.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
85
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 277
Publishing
Elizabeth Taylor
Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
258-61
Textual Production
Anne Stevenson
AS
's life of Sylvia Plath
, Bitter Fame, was published by Viking
in London and Houghton Mifflin
in Boston; even before it appeared it was immensely controversial.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
29-33
Publishing
Christina Stead
This was a novel about her former boyfriend Keith Duncan
. It began in the early 1930s as The Young Man Will Go Far then became The Travelling Scholar before acquiring its final title.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
137
Publishing
Muriel Spark
The special copies, produced jointly with Observer Books
, featured an original etching by Michael Ayrton
. The US edition was by Viking
(as were those of MS
's next few books); she had broken...
Textual Production
Ruth Rendell
It is dedicated To the men and women who work for London Transport
Underground; and to those who make music in its tunnels, and uses as epigraph a passage from G. K. Chesterton
on...
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
In the early 1950s TO
submitted stories, mostly about family life (in such unacceptable manifestations as a husband's death, a woman's desire, a retarded son), to the Ladies' Home Journal, which seems not...
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking
(to their indignation) and...
Publishing
Iris Murdoch
She finished her second draft on 28 March 1953, convinced at this point that it was romantic, sentimental, and bad, and gave it to Elias Canetti
to read. It was submitted to two successive publishers,...
Reception
Iris Murdoch
British Book News approved what it saw as IM
's abandonment of the deliberately eccentric and inconsequential approach of the earlier novels [for] a straightforward tale of the conflict between love and conventional social obligations...
Publishing
Penelope Mortimer
Viking
published PM
's biography, Queen Elizabeth
: A Life of the Queen Mother, after Macmillan
, which had originally commissioned the book, refused it after all.