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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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
5035 (1 October 1999): 9
Beowulf. Heaney, SeamusTranslator , Faber, 1999.
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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.
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973.
102: 219
Michael Dirda said it...
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...
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 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 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...
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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