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Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Seamus Heaney
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 .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
5035 (1 October 1999): 9
Beowulf. Translator Heaney, Seamus, Faber, 1999.
prelims
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
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.
qtd. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973–2025, Numerous volumes.
102: 219
Michael Dirda said it...
Publishing Diana Athill
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...
Publishing Anthony Trollope
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...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
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...
Publishing Alice Munro
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...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
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...
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
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...

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Texts

Athill, Diana. Letters to a Friend. Norton, 2012.
Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton, 1994.
Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton, 1990.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Nellie Y. McKay, editors. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Norton, 1997.
Gordon, Lyndall. Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life. Norton, 1984.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Householder. Norton, 2001.
Melville, Herman. “Foreword”. The Confidence-Man, edited by Hershel Parker, Norton, 1971, p. ix - xi.
Rich, Adrienne. A Human Eye. Norton, 2009.
Rich, Adrienne. A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far. Norton, 1981.
Rich, Adrienne. An Atlas of the Difficult World. Norton, 1991.
Rich, Adrienne. Arts of the Possible. Norton, 2001.
Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton, 1986.
Rich, Adrienne. Dark Fields of the Republic. Norton, 1995.
Rich, Adrienne. Diving into the Wreck. Norton, 1973.
Rich, Adrienne. Esssential Essays. Editor Gilbert, Susan M., Norton, 2018.
Rich, Adrienne. Fox. Norton, 2001.
Rich, Adrienne. Leaflets. Norton, 1969.
Rich, Adrienne. Midnight Salvage. Norton, 1999.
Rich, Adrienne. Necessities of Life. Norton, 1966.
Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born. Norton, 1976.
Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Norton, 1979.
Rich, Adrienne. Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, Poems 2004-2006. Norton, 2007.
Rich, Adrienne. The Dream of a Common Language. Norton, 1978.
Rich, Adrienne. The Fact of a Doorframe. Norton, 1984.
Rich, Adrienne. The School Among the Ruins. Norton, 2004.