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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 .
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Publishing Anita Desai
A Penguin edition appeared the following year.
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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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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In 1978, when Penguin Books
Publishing Margery Allingham
Penguin Books paid MA the compliment of re-issuing ten of her books published during 1929-45, all of them Albert Campion novels except Black Plumes.
British Book News. British Council.
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Publishing Betty Miller
Six months before publication she visited Freya Stark to see the Browning house at Asolo.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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The book appeared as a Penguin paperback in 1958.
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Publishing Isak Dinesen
This was reprinted in a Penguin edition in 2001.
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Publishing E. Arnot Robertson
This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband , calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
This novel has appeared in both Penguin and Virago editions. The paper cover of an Italian translation was so hideous that ET tore it up.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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Publishing Margaret Atwood
This book was based on the annual Massey Lectures which Atwood gave in Toronto this year. She was initially unwilling to accept the invitation to speak, but did so on condition that the result would...

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Gates, Henry Louis, and Henry Louis Gates, editors. “Introduction”. The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987, p. ix - xviii.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
George Savile, Marquess of Halifax,. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Penguin, 1996.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin, 1992.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995.
Harris, Sharon M., editor. Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Penguin, 2003.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7-50.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
Hill, Susan. Family. Penguin, 1990.
Holligdale, Reginald John, and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Translator’s Notes”. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ, Penguin, 1990, pp. 25-7.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin, 1980.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Penguin, 1967.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. Penguin, 1994.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Nature of Passion. Penguin, 1986.
Jolley, Elizabeth. Fellow Passengers. Editor Milech, Barbara H., Penguin, 1997.
Jolley, Elizabeth. Mr. Scobie’s Riddle. Penguin, 1983.