Little Brown

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Publishing Josephine Tey
The play was published that year by Victor Gollancz in London and by Little, Brown in Boston.
Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown.
prelims
Samuel French , Longmans , Penguin , and Pan all published editions of it between 1935 and 1966.
Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan.
93
Publishing Christina Stead
Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...
Publishing Christina Stead
She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss , was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...
Publishing Ali Smith
Once recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, Smith began writing stories again after a ten-year interval (she had been writing plays in the interim). The stories that would comprise Free Love were first sent to her...
Publishing Dodie Smith
DS published her first novel, the romantic story I Capture the Castle, with Little, Brown in Boston.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
178, 181
Publishing Dodie Smith
She struggled with the writing of this book and put it aside several times to work on other projects.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
163
When she finally completed it, she had to argue with her publisher not to cut...
Publishing Dodie Smith
Its title alludes to Oscar Wilde 's A Woman of No Importance.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
280
DS 's American publisher, Little, Brown was shocked at the novel's homosexual content and its likely impact on her readership. They...
Textual Production Gillian Slovo
GS moved to a new publisher, Little, Brown , for her memoir Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Blackwell
Publishing Michèle Roberts
She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
313
Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...
Publishing Laura Riding
The great unpublished work of LR 's lifetime was a dictionary. Various groups of friends collaborated on the early phases of this project, first in Mallorca and then in London. Its ancestor was a modest...
Publishing Laura Riding
That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson and a new contract had been...
Publishing Ngaio Marsh
NM published with Little Brown of Boston, USA, a detective novel entitled Killer Dolphin, which then appeared (not until the following year) in London as Death at the Dolphin.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus.
194
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Mary Lavin
This volume appeared in the USA from Little, Brown and Company , the year after its English publication, as At Sallygap and Other Stories. It was translated into Dutch in 1971 for publication in Holland.
Krawschak, Ruth, and Regina Mahlke. Mary Lavin: A Checklist. R. Krawschak.
1-2
Reception Rumer Godden
Coming out in wartime, this book made, said RG , only the slightest impact.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
195
One American critic, after condemning the novel, said it showed that RGcan write after all.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
195
She felt that...
Publishing 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...

Timeline

21 June 1973: Virago Press held its first board meeting...

Writing climate item

21 June 1973

Virago Press held its first board meeting (of directors Carmen Callil , Rosie Boycott , and Marsha Rowe ). The press was established in London with financial support from Quartet Books .

By Autumn 1975: Carmen Callil's new Virago Press issued its...

Women writers item

By Autumn 1975

Carmen Callil 's new Virago Press issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain 's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.

January 1996: Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint...

Building item

January 1996

Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown . Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.

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