Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv.
xxxiv, ix
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Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
's Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring was published [a]fter much wrangling with Houghton Mifflin
. Although not called a collected poems, the volume brought together new poems (not as many as the... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House
, Viking
, and Simon and Schuster
. Harcourt Brace
offered... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
accumulated a remarkable roster of awards and prizes, from Houghton Mifflin
's first annual $1,000 Poetry Prize in 1944, through her $2,500 Guggenheim in April 1947 and a travel grant for $7,000 from the... |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | WC
published with Houghton Mifflin
what is often called her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, which is properly a novella. She had been working on it since the previous year. Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv. xxxiv, ix Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 35 |
Publishing | Willa Cather | This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 35 |
Publishing | Willa Cather | On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 35 Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv. ix |
Publishing | Kate Chopin | KC
's third collection of stories, A Vocation and Voice, featured works that had previously been published in a variety of places, including Vogue. The manuscript was rejected by publishers Houghton Mifflin
in... |
Publishing | Julia Ward Howe | Serialization of JWH
's memoir Reminiscences: 1819-1899 began in the Atlantic Monthly. A book version with additional chapters was released by Houghton Mifflin
the same year. Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co. 358 |
Textual Production | Julia Ward Howe | A new but unfinished book of poems (which JWH
had been working on at the time of her death in October) was assembled by her daughter Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
and published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin |
Material Conditions of Writing | Carson McCullers | She began this novel under the title of The Mute while she was ill in bed at the end of 1936. In 1938 her outline won second prize in the Houghton Mifflin
fiction contest, bringing... |
Publishing | Carson McCullers | She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House
to publish... |
Textual Production | Gwen Moffat | She turned to writing and broadcasting when mountain guiding and other travel-type jobs proved to be inadequately paid. She dedicated the book to her mother, and published it with Hodder and Stoughton
in Britain and... |
Publishing | Anne Sexton | Houghton Mifflin
had accepted it on 19 May 1959, offering an advance of $200 against royalties. The manuscript was due at the printers on 1 August 1959, but Sexton held it up with last-minute changes.... |
Publishing | Anne Sexton | She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 240-1 |