She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...
Publishing
Edna St Vincent Millay
A decade or more after publication Cass Canfield
at Harper
proposed changing the name Aeolus to Ixion in Epitaph for the Race of Man: Millay, he suggested, had got her mythology wrong. She sent...
Publishing
Edna St Vincent Millay
Towards the end of 1946 ESVM
began writing poetry again after years of silence and drug addiction. She published some strong sonnets and other poems in journals, but she declined suggestions from Harper
(who, in...
Textual Features
Nina Bawden
This book is narrated by its male protagonist, a painter, who, however, concentrates much of his attention on the women in his life: wife, ex-wife, and mother. Perhaps the most memorable though minor character is...
Travel
E. M. Delafield
EMD
's American publisher, Cass Canfield
of Harper's, supported her lecture tour of the United States and Canada.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.
116-17
Travel
E. M. Delafield
EMD
sailed to Russia on a trip arranged by her publisher, Cass Canfield
, who wanted her to write a comic novel about living on a collective farm for six months.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.