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SH issued from Faber his translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (commissioned for the NortonAnthology of English Literature), which he dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes .

When Barbara Grier found the book in a Kansas department store in 1952, she was thrilled: It was a very upbeat, pro-lesbian book, which in itself was a miracle.Michael Dirda said it...

This collection had an unusually complex and tortuous history. At one point AM intended it to contain two groups of stories, those centred on the main character, Rose, and others involving another woman named Janet...

Angela Thirkell (an avowed disciple of Trollope) wrote an introduction for an edition of this novel in 1958; so did Pamela Hansford Johnson for the Norton edition four years later. A number of women writers...

When the publisher offered her an advance of £8,000 (up from £2,000 for her previous book) she thought at first that she must have mis-heard him over the phone. But the book nearly earned its...

The book germinated four more novels: Ripley Under Ground, 1970; Ripley's Game, 1974 (of which a film by Liliana Cavani was released in 2003, with John Malkovich as the protagonist); The Boy Who...

A 700-page volume of PH 's Selected Stories appeared from Norton in 2001. It was followed the next year by Nothing that Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (titled from a story...

PHJ wrote introductions for the Norton edition of Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1962, and for Cecil Woolf 's and Brocard Sewell 's volume of essays entitled Corvo , 1860-1960, 1961. She contributed in...