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...
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Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books
published a volume of ES
's Selected Poems in which wartime and post-war work
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 329
is dominant, with a short Early Poems section at the end.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production
Ali Smith
AS
's fifth novel, There But For The, was published by Penguin
. Like her previous works, it comprises multiple narratives joined by a singular force, and like The Accidental and The Seer...
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Muriel Spark
MS
published Voices at Play: Stories and Ear-pieces: this collects short stories but also four ear-pieces, or radio plays.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Muriel Spark
In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham
(who had sold some Penguin
paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic...
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Muriel Spark
Early in 2001 the octogenarian Spark was working on a play, as well as the novel that became The Finishing School (which was re-issued in Penguin
paperback in 2005).
Moir, Jan. “Dame plays detective”. Edmonton Journal, p. E13.
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Muriel Spark
Another collection of previously published work appeared in 1997 from New Directions Press
as Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories.
Spark, Muriel. Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories. New Directions.
title-page
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur appeared under this...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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
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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Emma Tennant
During the 1960s ET
wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter
Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan.
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Taylor, Ina. Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life. Penguin, 1990.
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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.
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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.