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
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
George Egerton
She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with...
Publishing
Margaret Laurence
She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart
Publishing
Alice Munro
Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
