National Book League

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
The book was published for the British Council and the National Book League . There were later a number of revised editions.
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.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 288
Textual Production Laura Riding
During the summer of emotional turmoil and re-aligned relationships that marked her return to the USA, LR was by August hard at work again on writing of her own and of Graves 's, on...
Reception Laura Riding
She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
17
It was the last volume that she published containing all new material. It was listed by the National Book League
Reception Harriet Shaw Weaver
In 1932Eliot dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW : in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
314n
Critic Percy Muir remarked at a National Book League celebration of James Joyce
Reception Fay Weldon
This novel was better-regarded than its predecessor. In the year after publication it was awarded a Booker McConnell Prize nomination by the National Book League .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
63: 440
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 750
Reviewers, including Kelley Cherry in...
Reception Margiad Evans
Reviews were mixed, though the book sold steadily. Some reviewers carped that it was not sufficiently taken up with World War Two, which was still in progress.
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren.
91
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, and Margiad Evans. “Introduction”. The Old and the Young, Seren, pp. 7-17.
12
ME was invited to lend part...
Reception Liz Lochhead
LL was the subject of two National Book League pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed...
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
It was published by Longmans, Green for the British Council and the National Book League .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 278
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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Timeline

1944: The National Book League was founded....

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1944

The National Book League was founded.

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