OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
William Collins
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
set up her own Penns in the Rocks Press
and in conjunction with publishers William Collins
produced volumes of Byron
and Shelley
each illustrated in black-and-white and colour. |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | In 1942 NM
produced, in collaboration with the historian R. M. Burdon
, a volume entitled New Zealand in Collins
's series The British Commonwealth in Pictures. Its twelve colour prints of New Zealand... |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | |
Publishing | Ngaio Marsh | With this book she moved from |
Literary responses | Ngaio Marsh | |
Textual Production | Penelope Lively | In The Presence of the Past; An Introduction to Landscape History (published by Collins
, with illustrations), PL
presented the land as story-teller. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1979 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | Carmen Callil
, editor of Virago Press
, approached Adrian House
, RL
's editor at Collins
, about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 393 |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins
, who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond
of Chatto and Windus |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | She had finished writing this novel on 15 October 1952, after a long struggle, in emotionally trying circumstances and finding the project intractable. Instead of their customary £750 advance, Collins
this time offered her the... |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | |
Publishing | Molly Keane | She wrote it secretly under the bedclothes, to combat boredom when, as a schoolgirl, she was sent home and kept in bed with something that was incorrectly suspected to be tuberculosis. Published by Mills and Boon |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | MK
wrote eleven novels under the name of M. J. Farrell. Ten were published by William Collins
, who kept urging her to write more. Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 128 |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | An acting edition was published by Samuel French
and another edition by Collins
, both in 1951. It appeared the following year from Collins
, adapted to novel form. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press. 166 Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon. 285 |
Timeline
1939: The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers...
Writing climate item
1939
The Reprint Society
was founded by the publishers William Collins
, Macmillan
, Heinemann
, and Hodder and Stoughton
.
Texts
Bowen, Elizabeth. English Novelists. William Collins, 1942.
Emecheta, Buchi. Gwendolen. William Collins, 1989.
O’Brien, Kate. English Diaries and Journals. William Collins, 1943.
Sitwell, Edith. English Women. William Collins, 1942.