Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Muriel Spark
She acquired friends in New York, in several distinct circles, many of whom she came later to regard as self-seeking hangers-on. Having changed her US publisher to Knopf
, she became friend of Alfred
and...
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
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
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...
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
André Gide
A four-volume edition of Gide's influential diaries, The Journals of André Gide, translated into English by Justin O'Brien
, was published by Knopf
in New York.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Publishing
Sylvia Townsend Warner
This poem was No. 2 of The Borzoi Chap Books published in New York by Alfred Knopf
.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
Most of the stories dated from several years before, and had been published in periodicals. An edition from Knopf
, New York, followed in January 1921.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.