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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
worked as a publishing representative for Alfred A. Knopf
in London. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009. 75 Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, 1984, p. i - vii. i |
Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
was co-manager of Alfred A. Knopf
's London branch with Guy Patterson Chapman
(who became her husband on 1 February 1926). Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009. 81-2 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Storm Jameson | Though the reunion of Jameson and her son was not permanent, they moved to Weybridge at some point in 1924. She began work on her fifth novel, as her Knopf
salary did not cover their... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | Jameson met Romer Wilson
, Charles Morgan
, and J. W. N. Sullivan
through her Knopf
connections. By about 1924 she and Edith Sitwell
had visited each other's homes. Jameson felt that in spite of... |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | She was once charged by Knopf
with the task of attempting to persuade Wyndham Lewis
to keep them as his American publisher, which she did on a cold, rainy day as vile as his temper... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's effect on other writers has been estimated as very strong. Those she influenced include May Sinclair
(whose novel Mary Olivier was also serialised in the Little Review), Romer Wilson
, and C. A. Dawson-Scott |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf
wrote to Heinemann
: the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Like ET
's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen
found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann
noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET |
Material Conditions of Writing | 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 | Elizabeth Taylor | Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 258-61 |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | |
Publishing | Angela Thirkell | In December the same year came Before Lunch, finished just before war broke out. After this AT
's rate of production at least slightly declined. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 124,127 |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | With this book ICB
's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz
was to reprint her earlier titles. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 271 Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 209 |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | She followed these with other translations of his works: Horla and Other Stories (1925), and (with Ernest Boyd
) Eighty-Eight Short Stories (1930). All of these volumes were put out by Knopf
, the publisher... |
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