She finished the title story on 14 October 1921, chose it as the title of the collection, and shortly afterwards planned a structure of alternating stories with New Zealand and London settings. The American edition...
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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
By this stage of her career, she was...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
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Katherine Mansfield
The edition from Knopf
, New York, October 1924, was titled The Little Girl.
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Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage
in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair
, and one from David Campbell
in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
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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
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Freya Stark
FS
published, with John Murray
, East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf
published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.
It was dedicated to Derek Hill
, who had done for EB
her painting of Bowen's Court.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
271
The New York edition, Seven Winters and Afterthoughts, from Alfred A. Knopf
(EB
's regular...
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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...
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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...
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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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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.
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.
13
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
76
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 490
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Muriel Spark
The special copies, produced jointly with Observer Books
, featured an original etching by Michael Ayrton
. The US edition was by Viking
(as were those of MS
's next few books); she had broken...
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Knopf
published the work in New York that same year. In 1952, George Harrap
issued a new edition, as did Pan Books
in 1958.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
77
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
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Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf, 1995.
Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf, 1997.
Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. Knopf, 2008.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Knopf, 1987.
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Knopf, 1992.
Morrison, Toni. Love. Knopf, 2003.
Morrison, Toni. Paradise. Knopf, 1998.
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Knopf, 1977.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Knopf, 1981.
Morrison, Toni. The Dancing Mind. Knopf, 1996.
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