Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Ella D'Arcy | This story was chosen for inclusion by Derek Stanford
in Short Stories of the 'Nineties in 1968. |
Dedications | Muriel Spark | MS
published her first volume of short fiction, The Go-Away Bird with Other Stories, with a print-run of 2,500, dedicated to her former lover Derek Stanford
. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992. 9 Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research, 1994. 139: 226 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 199 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | For the next few years she lived the stimulating, bohemian, often harsh life of a modern poet in London, though she despised those literary circles which she felt to be self-serving and amateurish. Although she... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | In London in early 1963 she was horrified to hear that a publisher had accepted a book about her by Derek Stanford
. The rushed and patchyMuriel Spark: A Biographical and Critical Study appeared... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Spark | |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Manuscripts of Spark's literary works and letters have been in great demand. She accused American dealer Lew D. Feldman
of trying to extort money from her in exchange for her own letters to Derek Stanford |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark was horrified when Derek Stanford
, her former friend and collaborator, published a book about her in September 1963: Muriel Spark, a Biographical and Critical Study, which she later called packed with factual... |
Textual Features | Muriel Spark | With this book Spark reverted to a shorter format, as close to novella as novel form. Critic Norman Page
, however, perceived a crucial difference between the serene and jaunty short novels which preceded The... |
Textual Features | Muriel Spark | This novel is set in the years 1954-5, with an epilogue which brings the characters thirty years onwards. The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, a young war widow, lives in a boarding-house in a downmarket area of... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
and Derek Stanford
published their joint study Emily Brontë
: Her Life and Work, after she had had to wait for his part of the venture, which came in late. The actual text... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
edited with Derek StanfordLetters of John Henry Newman
: A Selection (he dealing with Newman as an Anglican, she with Newman as a Catholic). Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992. 21 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 202 |
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 | This was her last book of non-fiction. Her attempt to help Derek Stanford
by arranging with Macmillan that they publish a second book on Newman came to nothing. He suffered a nervous breakdown, and had... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
's successive jobs in journalism (life, in effect, in modern Grub Street) provided a constant opportunity, and need, to write short pieces of many different types. While working for Argentor she wrote an article... |
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