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Ernest was by this time a relatively successful writer, but a controlling and disappointed man who was jealous of her talent. He is best known for The Plymouth Adventure, The Voyage of the Mayflower...

The idea for this character shift came from her US publishers, Doubleday Doran. But the book was more fundamentally and crucially influenced by the collaboration of MA's husband Pip Carter. She always...

Her Doubleday editor wrote: although it was so very complex, it all fell together beautifully. . . . She was what I call a real caviar writer.

The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much...

Doubleday published PH's novel The Glass Cell, but only after compelling her to do a great deal of painful cutting which left some pages of the former version only three lines long.

MW issued another novel with a lengthy time-span, A Sensible Life, her first to be published with Bantam.

PH's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday 's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann as A Suspension of Mercy.

She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. The English publisher was Michael Joseph

She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder and £2,000 from Doubleday.

The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters. After writing and publishing an...

The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...

The prospect of personal revelations in this book aroused great anticipation. A Doubleday editor, no less than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, offered $100,000 for world rights and was disappointed not to get them. On...

The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down...

The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson, and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast) by George H. Doran...

VSW's Challenge, a novel based on her love-affair with Violet Trefusis, appeared in New York from George H. Doran ; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974.