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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 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 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 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 Anita Desai
A Penguin edition appeared the following year.
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.
Publishing Monica Dickens
It had a Penguin edition the following year.
Publishing Mary Renault
When MR received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane , the hardback division of Penguin . After the death of...
Publishing Julia Strachey
The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge , by Virginia Woolf 's description of painter Henry Lamb as nipped, like a man on a pier.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
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Publishing Carol Shields
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1991 with Happenstance and under the overall title of the earlier book, with the two originally separate novels titled The Husband's Story and The Wife's Story. North American...
Publishing Margaret Mead
She did her research during eight months spent in Samoa, during which she learned the language, conducted interviews, and was chosen the taupou, or ceremonial virgin representative of a village she stayed at.
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp.
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Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
McIntyre, Ian. Garrick. Penguin, 1999.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin, 1996.
Mitford, Nancy, editor. Noblesse Oblige. Penguin, 1959.
Moggach, Deborah. To Have and to Hold. Penguin, 1986.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. Penguin, 1979.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Penguin, 1990.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
O’Faolain, Julia. Daughters of Passion. Penguin, 1982.
Oakley, Ann. From Here to Maternity: Becoming a Mother. Penguin, 1981.
Oakley, Ann, and Juliet Mitchell, editors. The Rights and Wrongs of Women. Penguin, 1976.
Oyeyemi, Helen. The Opposite House. Penguin, 2007.
Pepys, Samuel. The Shorter Pepys. Editor Latham, Robert, Penguin, 1987.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
Prebble, John. The Highland Clearances. Penguin, 1969.
Prince, Mary. “The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave”. The Classic Slave Narratives, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Penguin, 1987, pp. 183-38.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.
Quennell, Peter. Byron in Italy. Penguin, 1955.
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. “Editorial Materials”. The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse, translated by. Betty Radice, Penguin, 1974.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Poems and Prose, edited by Kathleen Raine, Penguin, 1957, pp. 9-17.
Rendell, Ruth. The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy. Penguin, 1998.
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela. Editor Sabor, Peter, Penguin, 1985.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.