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Publishing | Jean Plaidy | |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking
(to their indignation) and... |
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/. |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott
, who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Publishing | Germaine Greer | As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why... |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | VW
negotiated with American publishers over the rights to The Voyage Out and Night and Day; George H. Doran
of New York became her first American publisher. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 2: 401, 403 |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | 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. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 250 Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990. 124, 130 |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | 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. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 256-7 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 62 |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | 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. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 133 |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | |
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. qtd. in Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990. 128 |
Publishing | Ruby M. Ayres | 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... |
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