Lyall, Sarah. “It’s hard to keep a good sequel secret”. New York Times, p. C1, C12.
C1, C12
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | AT
never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | On the recommendation of Lady Antonia Fraser
, ET
was commissioned by St Martin's Press
to write the second sequel to Margaret Mitchell
's American classic, Gone With the Wind. Lyall, Sarah. “It’s hard to keep a good sequel secret”. New York Times, p. C1, C12. C1, C12 Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, p. D7. D7 |
Publishing | Emma Tennant | The Margaret Mitchell
Estate and St Martin's Press
rejected ET
's commissioned and completed second sequel to Gone With the Wind, writing off the $230,000 advance which they had already paid her. Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, p. D7. D7 |
Textual Production | Jan Struther | This was probably the most that had yet been paid by a film studio for a first novel. But after the film grossed $8,878,000 JS
wrote, I got the worst contract of any author ever... |
Residence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has called Tuamgraneyfervid, enclosed and catastrophic. Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research. 574 |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She left it in her will to Margaret Mitchell
. It was never published. Literary historian J. Paul de Castro
used it in 1943. Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 185 , pp. 373-4. 374 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She shared the Sion Road house with her younger brother Henry and her close friend Margaret Mitchell
. Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 185 , pp. 373-4. 373 |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Education | Helen Dunmore | While HD
was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer. |
Education | Pat Arrowsmith | She did not learn the facts of life until she was eleven or twelve. Before that she knew that kittens came out of cats, but not how they got there. Her self-education about sexuality was... |
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