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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Her translation, commissioned by Penguin , made a double volume in the Penguin Classics. It had diagrams by C. W. Scott-Giles , notes, commentaries, a glossary, a dedication to the dead master of the...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
Penguin published Soul Tourists, a novel by BE with interspersed verse, dramatic scripts, and other pieces, one of whose characters is haunted by ghosts from the past.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ issuedMr. Scobie's Riddle (Penguin ), which, with Miss Peabody's Inheritance (University of Queensland Press ), was one of her two novels this year.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
PB edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin : Our New Order—or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Anthony Eden , Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's Selected Poems appeared from Peterloo Poets and also as a King Penguin .
Fanthorpe, U. A. Selected Poems. Peterloo Poets, 1986.
prelims
Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets, 1995.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
During this productive year she was also one of the writers included in A Puffin Quartet of Poets.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 839
Puffin is the children's imprint of Penguin Books .
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF contributed to the Penguin series Lives of Modern Women her short biography Bessie Smith.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
This project had begun with AS 's draft of a brief introduction to the work of Plath, written for the PenguinModern Women series and read in manuscript by Plath's widower, Ted Hughes . He...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published Voices at Play: Stories and Ear-pieces: this collects short stories but also four ear-pieces, or radio plays.
The Penguin edition, 1966, drops the subtitle.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Textual Production Susan Hill
SH edited a selection of Thomas Hardy for Penguin in 1979: The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales; it includes her introduction and notes. She has written new introductions for two novels by F. M. Mayor
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Sales of the novel were slow until it was published in 1969 by Penguin , when things changed. Julia Briggs observes that with VW 's popularity still growing, even a neglected novel now commands substantial sales.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. Allen Lane, 2005.
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Textual Production Alice Munro
AM provided a retrospection on her career with Selected Stories, published by Knopf and by Penguin , which includes twenty-eight pieces from the whole span of her writing so far.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Beatrix Potter
Today the once gentleman-like, personal, and family publishing firm of Frederick Warne has become the property of an international conglomerate, Pearson , which owns Penguin , Longman , Ladybird , tv and software development companies...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
The full English title was Ariel: A Shelley Romance. In July 1935 this translation became the first Penguin paperback ever published.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
59392 (10 May 1975): 9

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Texts

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.
Richardson, Samuel. “Notes”. Clarissa, edited by Angus Ross, Penguin, 1985, pp. 1513-26.
Burney, Frances. “Introduction and front matter”. Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001, p. vii - xxviii.
Dante Alighieri,. Cantica I: Hell. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1949.
Dante Alighieri,. Cantica II: Purgatory. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1955.
Dante Alighieri,. Cantica III: Paradise. Translators Sayers, Dorothy L. and Barbara Reynolds, Penguin, 1962.
The Song of Roland. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1957.
Stendhal,. The Charterhouse of Parma. Translator Shaw, Margaret R. B., Penguin, 1958.
Shelston, Alan, and Elizabeth Gaskell. “Introduction”. The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Penguin, 1975, pp. 9-37.
Sitwell, Edith. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1952.
Smith, Ali, and Leonora Carrington. “Introduction”. The Hearing Trumpet, Penguin, 2005, p. v - xvi.
Smith, Ali. There But For The. Penguin, 2011.
Smith, John Maynard. Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution. Penguin, 1993.
Smith, Susan Belasco, and Fanny Fern. “Introduction”. Ruth Hall, Penguin, 1997, p. xv - xlv.
Smith, Zadie. Changing my Mind: Occasional Essays. Penguin, 2009.
Smith, Zadie. Martha and Hanwell. Penguin, 2005.
Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. Penguin, 2016.
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. Penguin, 2001.
Spark, Muriel. Reality and Dreams. Penguin, 1997.
Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin, 1964.