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Publishing Penelope Mortimer
PM published a volume of her New Yorker stories as Saturday Lunch with the Brownings, which became a Penguin paperback in 1977.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Constance Holme
Late in life CH wrote, it is not easy for a woman to be the simple and natural devotée of an art as a man can. I have had to be house wife, agent's...
Publishing Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the series, was published by Smith Elder in 1858.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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Ruth Rendell wrote an introduction to a Penguin edition in 1991. The fourth in the series, Framley Parsonage...
Publishing Deborah Levy
This was reissued by Penguin together with Beautiful Mutants and under the title Early Levy, 2014. The combination was reprinted by Bloomsbury Publishing the next year as Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels.
Levy, Deborah. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels. Bloomsbury.
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...
Reception Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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and William James wrote to tell her that it was...
Reception Augusta Gregory
In 1995 Penguin published a volume of AG 's selected writings, edited by Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen Waters , circulating her work to a wider audience. That year also saw the launch of the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering
Reception D. H. Lawrence
The trial regarding obscenity charges against DHL 's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited , began at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Lady Chatterley’s Lover</span> Trial. Bodley Head.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin.
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Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press.
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Reception Nancy Mitford
Oswald Mosley banned his sister-in-law from his home after this novel.
Knight, India. “Nit, Sick, and Bore”. London Review of Books, pp. 25-6.
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But she opposed its reissue after the war, on the grounds that [t]oo much has happened for jokes about Nazis to be regarded...
Reception D. H. Lawrence
Penguin released an edition of 200,000 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover to the public; the novel by DHL had been banned in England for more than thirty years.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis.
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Reception Nancy Mitford
This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society Choice, and earned NM over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris.
Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton.
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Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain.
After its success on...
Reception Vita Sackville-West
Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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It was a Book Society Choice, recommended by Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole , and...
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's works began to appear as Virago Modern Classics: all except two, which instead appeared in Penguin .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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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.