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 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...
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
Muriel Spark
That same year it was published in the USA by Knopf
(to whom MS
had moved from Lippincott
), and it also appeared in a condensed version in the Saturday Evening Post. It was...
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, 2003, pp. 9-39.
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xliv.
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It sold 30,000...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
That same year it also appeared in New York with publisher Alfred A. Knopf
. The French Window, her second book for children, followed in 1970.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 490
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...
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It sold nearly 5,000 copies in six weeks, a further acceleration of the high sales rate (for ICB
) of Elders and Betters.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
