DB
had tried to find a publisher for Nightwood while she was living in New York, but the manuscript was turned down repeatedly. Emily Coleman
suggested revisions, which Barnes carried out. Coleman also exploited literary...
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Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he...
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Djuna Barnes
T. S. Eliot
was once again instrumental in editing her manuscript and recommending it for publication with Faber and Faber
. However, he wrote a blurb for the play which suggested frustration at DB
's...
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Julia O'Faolain
This novel met with the threat of a libel action (about which Charles Monteith
of Faber and Faber
was stoical) from a woman whom JOF
described in hyperbolic terms as having a termite-infested bed. O'Faolain...
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Frances Cornford
In order that her son should be the illustrator of this volume, Cornford rejected an offer from Faber and Faber
to publish her poems.
Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xiii - xxv.
xv
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T. S. Eliot
Its date—the first celebration during World War Two of the Christian festival of resurrection—was significant, and was also a factor in the poem's impact. Reprinted as a separate publication by Faber and Faber
in May...
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Alison Uttley
After many rejections, AU
began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber
in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels
. Years later, a...
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Ann Jellicoe
The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court
, despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ
credits John Osborne
for persuading them to produce...
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Djuna Barnes
Most of DB
's later publications were collections of previously published works. Her Selected Works, which included Spillway (a collection of short stories), The Antiphon, and Nightwood, were published in the USA...
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Julia O'Faolain
Her father, Sean O'Faolain
, had included in his Collected Stories, 1983, a piece whose title reproduces the Yeats phrase exactly: No Country for Old Men.
Invited by Richard de la Mare
in February 1934 to write a successor to The Country Child, AU
first planned a fictional treatment to be called High Meadows (published in 1938), then began in...
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Tillie Olsen
The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott
, who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in...
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Alison Uttley
The Farm on the Hill brought AU
a thirty-pound advance from Faber
. At a price of seven and sixpence, it sold 1,300 copies by the autumn.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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George Orwell
GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
41
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Alison Uttley
At the end of that year, Faber
rejected The Secret Spring, as did another publisher in February 1933. AU
then wrote off that project, since she had plenty more on hand.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
124
When Cuckoo...
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