Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, 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
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
Ford Madox Ford
The first single-volume edition of FMF
's Parade's End tetralogy was published by Knopf
in New York.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1962.
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Publishing
D. H. Lawrence
DHL
attempted to find an English or American publisher, but met with no success: the sexual language and actions of Constance Chatterley, the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, and others were seen as immoral and unfit for...
Publishing
André Gide
Strait is the Gate, an English translation of AG
's La porte étroite by Dorothy Bussy
, was published by Jarrolds
in London and Knopf
in New York.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Norah Lofts
Lofts circulated this manuscript among publishers for five years before it was accepted by Knopf
. During this time, she did not write any further fiction: I was too despairing, and I thought if that...
Publishing
André Gide
Dorothy Bussy
's English translation of AG
's L'immoraliste (Paris, 1902) was published by Knopf
in New York as The Immoralist.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.