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Reception Hildegarde of Bingen
In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and...
Reception Constance Holme
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the respectful reviews granted CH 's work during her lifetime in such influential journals as the Athenæum, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. She...
Reception Elspeth Huxley
This book was a great success. It was twice reprinted before the outbreak of the second world war interrupted its career; in 1999 it was issued in Penguin 's Twentieth Century World Classics series. EH
Reception Mary Fortune
MF 's work first began to reappear in anthologies in 1987; some of her poetry and prose was subsequently reprinted in slim volumes by the Mulini Press in 1995 and 2009, as well as in...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
During the interim Woolf's overall sales went up by at least half, and a Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics set of her works (taking a feminist approach) was commissioned, along with several other new editions. Publishers were...
Publishing Lettice Cooper
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Dorothy Osborne
The first edition of her letters alone appeared in 1888, edited by Sir Edward Abbott Parry . Israel Gollancz went back to the manuscripts to edit them for the King's Classics series of the De La More Press
Publishing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
It was reprinted by Penguin thirty years after its appearance.
Publishing E. H. Young
EHY changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin imprint.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
Publishing Helen Oyeyemi
Bloomsbury in London and Penguin in New York published HO 's second novel, The Opposite House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Nadine Gordimer
The collection was reprinted by Penguin in 1982. In the same year one of its stories, Happy Event, was included in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980.
Publishing Jennifer Johnston
First published with Hamish Hamilton , who would become JJ 's regular publishers, The Captains and the Kings was later reprinted as a Penguin paperback, a trend that would continue with most of her works...
Publishing J. K. Rowling
Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency , where it was noticed by Bryony Evans , who had the job of opening the post. The...
Publishing Jennifer Johnston
This novel was made into a film in 1988.In 1993 it was published by Penguin as retold by Kieran McGovern .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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Jolley, Elizabeth. My Father’s Moon. Penguin, 1989.
Jolley, Elizabeth. The Well. Penguin, 1986.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Cranford; Cousin Phillis, edited by Peter John Keating, Penguin, 1986, pp. 7-30.
Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Translator Windeatt, Barry A., Penguin, 1994.
Kingsley, Mary. A Hippo Banquet. Penguin, 2015.
Lawrence, D. H. A Selection From <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Phoenix</span>. Editor Inglis, Anthony Angus Haig, Penguin, 1971.
Lessing, Doris. “Each His Own Wilderness”. New English Dramatists, edited by Elliott M. Browne, Penguin, 1959, pp. 11-95.
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Penguin, 1966.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
Lively, Penelope. How It All Began. Penguin, 2011.
Lively, Penelope. How It All Began. Penguin, 2012.
Lively, Penelope. Life in the Garden. Penguin, 2017.
Lochhead, Liz. Bagpipe Muzak. Penguin, 1991.
Lochhead, Liz. Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off; and, Dracula. Penguin, 1989.
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, et al. “The Tragedie of Iphigeneia”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998.
MacGibbon, James. “Note to the 1978 Reprint”. The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, Penguin, 1985, p. 12.
Smith, Stevie. “Note to the 1985 edition”. Selected Poems, edited by James MacGibbon, Penguin, 1978.
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994.
Mackay, Shena. Death by Art Deco. Penguin, 1995.
Manley, Delarivier. The New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Penguin, 1992.
Manning, Olivia. The Balkan Trilogy. Penguin, 1981.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1981.
Mantel, Hilary. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. Penguin, 1988.
Marie de France,. The Lais of Marie de France. Translators Burgess, Glyn Sheridan and Keith Busby, Penguin, 1986.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.