This work was reissued by Viking
one year later in the US.
Publishing
Rebecca West
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
Marianne Moore
She intended the word complete to mean everything from her poetic output that she wished to pass on to posterity, not by any means everything that she had ever written. She makes this clear through...
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
Marianne Moore
This enumeration by no means exhausts MM
's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine
's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault
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.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
26
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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,...
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Valentine Ackland
VA
's account at her publisher Viking Press
was always overdrawn because she ordered innumerable copies of the book for her family and friends.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
158
Publishing
Pat Barker
In an author's note, PB
explains that fact and fiction are interwoven in this book, and lists her most important sources.
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...
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...
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Rumer Godden
It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
69-70
It was the last novel owed to Little Brown
under RG
's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
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...
Publishing
Rumer Godden
This novel also was written at Pollards in Buckinghamshire. RG
consulted the Chairman and Clerk of London's Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
, a police inspector of Bow Street
, the Governors and Secretary of the...
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Texts
Arendt, Hannah. Between Past and Future. Viking Press, 1961.
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. Viking Press, 1963.
Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. Viking Press, 1963.
Gordimer, Nadine. A Guest of Honour. Viking Press, 1970.
West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, 1977, pp. 761-6.
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Viking Press, 1932.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
Smith, Dodie et al. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Viking Press, 1956.
West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Viking Press, 1945.
West, Rebecca. The New Meaning of Treason. Viking Press, 1964.