Macmillan
made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...
Publishing
Patricia Highsmith
Harper
rejected this novel, and it came out pseudonymously from Coward-McCann
as The Price of Salt. A paperback followed in 1953, in which the work sold more than a million.
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
Publishing
Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
had been interested in Queen Elizabeth since, when she was twelve, her father stood her just over half the cost of Mandell Creighton
's book about the queen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
