This novel saw both a second New York edition (revised by CMS
) and a London edition in the year of its first publication. It was soon reprinted with some of Sedgwick's short fictions, and...
Publishing
Caroline Blackwood
She had visited the camp in March, commissioned by a US magazine for an article, and fascinated by these outsiders whose courage and perseverance was being rewarded with vilification. She then expanded her article into...
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Edith Templeton
This volume's appearance was the work of ET
's literary agent, David McCormick
, who regarded the re-animation of forgotten reputations as his speciality. A London edition and a Dutch translation followed in 2004, and...
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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, 2003, p. xii; 540 pp.
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 Lady Chatterleys Lover Trial. Bodley Head, 1990.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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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, 3 Jan. 2002, 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...
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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, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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, 1963.
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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, 1985.
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Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain.
After its success on...
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, 2002.
393
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...
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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...
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Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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H. G. Wells
read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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...
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