The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 473
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii.
xix
PG
wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
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Flora Thompson
During the 1930s and 40s FT
worked at several unpublished novels. She never submitted any to a publisher, but she struggled with Gates of Eden, as well as doing her work for the Peverel Society
This work is dedicated To the English girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in Our Eastern Empire.
Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo.
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Steel and Gardiner called themselves on the title-page two twenty year's [sic]...
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Flora Thompson
She submitted her work in fifteen chapters to Oxford University Press
(no doubt for reasons of local loyalty), describing it as a fiction. Since the press did not deal with fiction they called it autobiography....
The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales
, is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes
, who published...
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Anne Sexton
She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin.
240-1
She fought a battle with her US publisher, Houghton Mifflin
, over a jacket she disliked, and secured instead the use of a...
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Buchi Emecheta
After the very successful launch of The Bride Price, BE
considered changing to a different publisher. She suspected that the small firm of Allison and Busby
could not afford to publish any one author...
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Thomas Hardy
TH
's single work for children (a story for boys), Our Exploits at West Poley, was serialised at Boston in The Household Magazine, and subsequently published by the Oxford University Press
in 1952.
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
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Flora Thompson
She worked on this second volume through various obstacles. In September 1939 she juggled her writing with making blackout curtains; then she and her husband moved house; and by summer 1940 there were bombers overhead....
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Anne Sexton
Many of the poems had appeared in periodicals from about a year before this. Jon Stallworthy
, who was offered the manuscript for Oxford University Press
, was dubious about its quality and stipulated some...
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H. D.
These appeared in London and New York from Oxford University Press
(the first in 1944 and the second and third in 1945 and 1946 respectively). The first remains unlisted in the OCLC Worldcat.
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy
of OUP
had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS
withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe
This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis
for Oxford University Press
, 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library
manuscript. It...
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