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Textual Production Jan Struther
After her second marriage JS was commissioned by Harcourt Brace to write an autobiography of her first twenty years; they wanted to publish in spring 1949, and offered an advance plus a fee of $15,000...
Textual Production Jan Struther
At the turn of the year 1948-9, JS 's new agent Curtis Brown (succeeding to A. P. Watt ) returned a poem that had been rejected by eight magazines. Others were rejected by even more...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
After her previous book's success, she had acquired an agent (David Higham of Curtis Brown , who also handled Rose Macaulay and Vita Sackville-West ). In later years she dealt with Spencer Curtis Brown
Textual Production Romer Wilson
Harcourt Brace published the first of RW 's three anthologies of fairy tales: Green Magic: A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Tales from All Countries; they later issued two more.
Cook, Marjorie Grant. “Once Upon a Time: Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Green Magic</span> by Romer Wilson”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1399, p. 895.
895
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW published her novel Mrs. Dalloway with her own Hogarth Press . Two thousand copies were printed. The American edition was published the same day by Harcourt, Brace and Company .
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 237
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Clarendon Press.
25
Textual Production Mary McCarthy
MMC published through Harcourt, Brace and World the novel that became her best-known work, The Group, about eight young female friends recently graduated from Vassar College .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW published the complete Flush, her fictional autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's dog, with the Hogarth Press and with Harcourt Brace in America.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 245
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
160
Textual Features Jan Struther
This volume (published in New York by Harcourt Brace ) consists of letters written during the Second World War by various anonymous women to their friends in America (JS and others), minimally edited. That...
Reception Anna Wickham
AW 's first major champion was American poet and editor Louis Untermeyer , who greatly admired her terse, pungently flavored lyrics
Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, pp. 276-7.
277
as well as her candour, incisiveness, and integrity.
Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, pp. 276-7.
276
In 1921 he published...
Publishing Flannery O'Connor
This collection was the first fruits of her life with her mother on the farm Andalusia, narrowed down by the constraints of her illness. Years later she wrote of the delusion that her writing...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
It its first six months it sold 8,104 copies in England (twice as many as To the Lighthouse) and 13,031 from Harcourt Brace in the USA.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
205
The Hogarth office boy, Richard Kennedy
Publishing Elizabeth Robins
The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann took it on.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
232
One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press , probably because it turned out too long...
Publishing Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's final novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Busman's Honeymoon, was published first in the USA by Harcourt Brace ; its UK publication, by Gollancz , followed in June this year.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan.
84-5
Publishing Gertrude Stein
Friends and publishers had been calling on GS to write her memoirs. She refused on grounds that it was not her type of writing—though, she said, she would not mind if Alice wanted to pursue...
Publishing Jan Struther
JS 's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace , is not held by either the British Library or the Bodleian Library ..
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray.
253
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

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O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Harcourt Brace, 1955.
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace, 1921.
Struther, Jan, and Aldren Watson. A Pocketful of Pebbles. Harcourt Brace, 1946.
Walker, Alice, and Pratibha Parmar. Warrior Marks. Harcourt Brace, 1993.