The novel was very well received, both in England and the United States. In the New York Herald Tribune, Lewis Gannett
recommended it as a book to buy, to read, to remember and...
Literary responses
Alice Munro
Smiley
observed that Munro has become more, not less, experiemental with time.
Publishing
Nancy Mitford
Wigs on the Green and its predecessor, Christmas Pudding were re-issued in Vintage
editions for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, in one volume with an introduction by Jane Smiley
.
Textual Production
Alice Munro
AM
gathered the work of a couple of decades in Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (titled from a story that appeared in 2001), with a foreword by Jane Smiley
.
Rafferty, Terrence. “’Family Furnishings,’, Selected Stories by Alice Munro”. The New York Review of Books, 10 Dec. 2014.
Timeline
December 1937: US physicist John Atanasoff, after years...
Building item
December 1937
US physicist John Atanasoff
, after years of working on machines to facilitate elaborate calculations, had a brainwave which enabled him successfully to build a desk-size electronic calculating machine (not strictly a computer, since it...
3 March 1959: Ruth Handler put together at her kitchen...
Building item
3 March 1959
Ruth Handler
put together at her kitchen table the prototype Barbie doll, which was unveiled shortly afterwards by Mattel
at this year's American International Toy Fair: a doll with a stylized female body, glamorous in...
Texts
Smiley, Jane. “Rereading. ’Oh God, give me horses!’”. The Guardian, p. Review 20.