It had been completed at the end of October 1958. The time elapsing between the writing and the publishing of a book extended markedly during ICB
's career. This book and the following two were...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
to finance its writing, BH
published her first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather, through Simon and Schuster
in New York.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
131
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Publishing
Bessie Head
Simon and Schuster
provided an advance of eighty US dollars. They also provided editorial help and guidance, tactfully steering BH
away from the rhapsodical style which came naturally to her. This hardback edition was quickly...
Publishing
Bessie Head
Her novel was rejected by Simon and Schuster
, but accepted by Gollancz. It was published, unfortunately, during her complete mental breakdown, the most serious she ever had.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
134, 167
Publishing
Christina Stead
At a time when proletarian fiction was all the rage, she felt she was writing an ideologically correct work that would expose the sordid machinations of fraudulent capitalists, though she realised that while perhaps revolutionary...
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
Ethel Wilson
On 18 November 1944, EW
began corresponding with editors at the Canadian publishing company Macmillan
. She sent Macmillan a bundle of stories, including the three published in the New Statesman, proposing that the...
Publishing
Ethel Wilson
The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
110
Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW
's editors at Macmillan
Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Stead
At the insistence of its first publisher, the US Simon and Schuster
, CS
agreed to transpose her Australian novel to an American setting. This entailed shifting the period from the 1910s to the 1930s...
Friends, Associates
Bessie Head
In Francistown she again was able to draw on the generosity of friends who perceived her literary potential: Nini Ettlinger
, who gave her, under the appearance of a loan, the money to buy a...
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Texts
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Bunch, Bryan, and Alexander Hellemans. The Timetables of Technology. Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Head, Bessie. When Rain Clouds Gather. Simon and Schuster, 1969.
Miller, James. "Democracy is in the Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Morris, Donald R. The Washing of the Spears. Simon and Schuster, 1965.
Shipman, Pat. Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
Stead, Christina. The Man Who Loved Children. Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Tennant, Emma, and Nicola Leader. Elinor and Marianne. Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Walsh, John Evangelist. The Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson. Simon and Schuster, 1971.