Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, pp. 7-11.
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Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | 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; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, pp. 7-11. 7 |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | 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... |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | 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. Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press. 128 |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | This was her second book about her visits to Persia. The American edition was by Doubleday, Doran
. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 27n5 |
Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
published a collection of poems in French and English, Poems & poèmes, with Émile-Paul Frères
in Paris and George H. Doran
in New York. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran. title-page |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | 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) Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 57 |
Publishing | Jennifer Johnston | |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | 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. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. xv |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The book was first published by George H. Doran
in New York and two years later by Collins
in London. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | This was reprinted in a Vintage
edition for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, along with re-issues of other NM
novels, both early and better-known. |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder
and £2,000 from Doubleday
. |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | Wigs on the Green and its predecessor, Christmas Pudding were re-issued in Vintage
editions for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, in one volume with an introduction by Jane Smiley
. |
Publishing | Alice Munro | Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies. Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart. 352 |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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