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.
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, pp. 276-7. 276 |
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 |
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 |
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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