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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Renault | Since the American Book-of-the-Month Club
wanted to distribute the book if publication could be speeded up, MR
corrected proofs over the transatlantic telephone (then very imperfect). She found the process exhausting and frustrating. |
| Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | She felt that her second volume had been a failure, and this made it very hard to go on. Then Heinemann
, with low expectations for sales and set back by the stark undiluted tragedy... |
| Reception | Vita Sackville-West | There was a widespread feeling that VSW
had been too circumspect and scholarly. Virginia Woolf
told Vita that she found the book solid, strong, satisfactory Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 6: 49 |
| Reception | Jan Struther | The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club
choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS
to tour America to... |
| Reception | Angela Thirkell | This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole
regretted its lack of plot. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 120 |
| Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The novel was nominated for the 1926 Prix Femina, and was the first selection of the American Book-of-the-Month Club
, an organisation newly formed that year. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xix Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 60: 409 |
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