Her stress levels were not improved at this time by an affair with the poet and publisher Howard Sergeant
, who had a disintegrating first marriage and a daughter. Plans for living together came to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Muriel Spark
The close of MS
's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant
(with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford
, a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who...
Publishing
Ruth Fainlight
Her husband, Alan Sillitoe, writes that publisher Howard Sergeant
and his wife Jean
entertained Fainlight and Sillitoe for an evening in Dulwich early in 1957 and accepted a batch of poems from each of them...
Textual Production
Muriel Spark
MS
's first adult publication appeared: Reassessment Pamphlet no. 1: Poetry, a literary-critical statement, co-authored with Howard Sergeant
, consisting of a single leaf folded.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Textual Production
Muriel Spark
Her recently discarded boyfriend, Howard Sergeant
, annoyed her by planning a simultaneous, rival Wordsworth book. Tribute to Wordsworth was published by André Deutsch
, who was then working for Allan Wingate
. MS