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Connections Author name Excerpt
Material Conditions of Writing Maggie Gee
Gee said later that she thought this novel would win her the Booker Prize. She wrote it at twenty-five, in six months on the dole before beginning her PhD, and took seven years to get...
Publishing Shena Mackay
SM 's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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.
Hamilton, Ian. “Bohemian Rhapsodist”. The Guardian, pp. Saturday Review 6 - 7.
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Publishing Shena Mackay
Before Babies in Rhinestones appeared, SM completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel. She submitted this, her first novel for over a...

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Texts

Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, 1982, pp. 45-66.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
Lucas, John. The Literature of Change. Harvester Press, 1980.
Mackay, Shena. A Bowl of Cherries. Harvester Press, 1984.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
Moore, David Cresap. The Politics of Deference: A Study of the Mid-Nineteenth Century English Political System. Harvester Press, 1976.
Noyce, John. The Directory of British Alternative Periodicals 1965-1974. Harvester Press, 1979.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
Shaw, Marion. “Feminism and Fiction between the Wars: Winifred Holtby and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Virginia Woolf</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing: A Challenge to Theory, edited by Moira Monteith, Harvester Press, 1986.
Stenton, Michael, and Stephen Lees, editors. Who’s Who of British Members of Parliament. Harvester Press, 1981.