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
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
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Muriel Spark
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...