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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, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xix Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 60: 409 |
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. 120 |
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 | 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. 6: 49 |
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... |
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. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 255-7, 260 |
Reception | George Orwell | Animal Farm was and is extremely successful. It sold half a million copies in its first month, thanks to the American Book-of-the-Month Club
, Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams. 41-2 |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir
. There was much debate over the real-life... |
Reception | Storm Jameson | The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society
choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club
in Canada, and a dollar amount... |
Reception | P. D. James | Richard Gidez
feels that this book represents P. D. James at her best. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne. 87 |
Reception | P. D. James | Critics gave this book a good deal of positive critical attention, and it reached a wider audience than James's usual mystery novels simply because it was not of that genre. Many readers responded to it... |
Reception | P. D. James | Critics received this book positively: they enjoyed its entertainment value, considered the pace good, the plot steady, the writing stylish, and the solution surprising and satisfying. It became a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection. Richard Gidez
insisted... |
Reception | Rumer Godden | This book was a joint Book-of-the-Month Club
choice in the USA, and earned RG
about $20,000. Spencer Curtis
concluded he had been wrong to condemn it; but she feared he might have been right. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 115 |
Reception | Buchi Emecheta | The Joys of Motherhood was a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection in 1979, and BE
received a Best British Writer's Award for it in 1980. Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press. 458 |
Textual Production | Isak Dinesen | Dorothy Canfield Fisher
contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial... |
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