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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 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 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 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 .
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 Anita Desai
A Penguin edition appeared the following year.
Author summary Patricia Highsmith
PH , writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...
Occupation Noel Streatfeild
In her professional career, NS gradually came to accept the role of writer for children as a more prominent part of her identity than that of writer for adults. She answered letters from children who...
Occupation Carol Ann Duffy
As a schoolgirl CAD had a Saturday job sweeping the floor at a local hairdresser's. Her pay each week bought her ten cigarettes, a bottle of wine, and a Penguin collection of some modern poet.
Wroe, Nicholas. “A life in writing”. The Guardian, p. Review 11.
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Occupation Kamila Shamsie
In 2017 both KS and Penelope Lively were approached by Penguin to select under-appreciated works for inclusion in a series of forgotten classics by female British authors in recognition of the centenary passing of Representation...
Material Conditions of Writing Naomi Alderman
NA titled her second novel The Lessons. It was published by Penguin after a long old slog, which involved cutting 50,000 words,
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
the entire original opening.
Shackle, Samira. “The Lessons (review)”. The New Statesman, Vol.
139
, No. 4997, p. 55.
139.4997 (19 April 2010): 55

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Sussex, Lucy. “’Shrouded in Mystery’: Waif Wander (Mary Fortune)”. A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin, 1988, pp. 117-31.
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. xii - xxiii.
Taylor, Ina. Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life. Penguin, 1990.
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. Penguin, 1993.
Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin, 1968.
Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin, 1980.
Tey, Josephine. The Daughter of Time. Penguin, 1954.
Tey, Josephine. The Franchise Affair. Penguin, 1951.
Geoffrey of Monmouth,. The History of the Kings of Britain. Translator Thorpe, Lewis, Penguin, 1966.
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin, 1984.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin, 1992.
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin, 1983.
Warner, Marina, and Clare Boylan. “Rich Pickings”. The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, Penguin, 1993, pp. 27-33.
Weldon, Fay. Polaris. Penguin, 1989.
Weldon, Fay. Rebecca West. Penguin, 1985.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
Winterson, Jeanette. The Stone Gods. Penguin, 2007.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction and Notes”. Helbeck of Bannisdale, edited by Brian Worthington, Penguin, 1983, pp. 9 - 27, 391.