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