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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Bannerman
One result of the offence given by Little Black Sambo has been a series of recastings designed to censor its unacceptable aspects. Fred Marcellino produced new illustrations for an edition published by HarperCollins in New...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.
qtd. in
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
450
Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton
Publishing Alison Uttley
This book caused AU much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she...
Publishing Phyllis Bottome
The book was first published by George H. Doran in New York and two years later by Collins in London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
Harper had wanted the volume to include her preface and two or three new, unpublished sonnets. Producing either of these caused her much anguish. She failed to finish the preface, and felt sure that her...
Publishing P. L. Travers
The book was first published in London by Collins , followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing George Orwell
GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams, 1977.
41
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
By June 14, 1884, an American edition appeared in New York, published by Harper and Brothers (which oddly published simultaneously another novel with a similar title: A Country Maid by F. W. Robinson )...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH published East Africa for Collins 's British Commonwealth in Pictures series, launched by Hilda Matheson and Dorothy Wellesley .
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
151
Publishing Rebecca Harding Davis
RHD 's Doctor Warrick's Daughters was published in parts in the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar before being released as a novel by Harper of New York.
Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers, 1993.
xvii, 149
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
Towards the end of 1946 ESVM began writing poetry again after years of silence and drug addiction. She published some strong sonnets and other poems in journals, but she declined suggestions from Harper (who, in...
Publishing Maggie Gee
At her agent's suggestion MG had left Heinemann (which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo , the literary imprint of HarperCollins . This was to...
Publishing Frances Browne
Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
She found anthologising hard work, with books (most of them disappointing) pouring in from the library with deadline dates of return. She needed to select, photocopy, order and re-order her growing mountain of material, and...

Timeline

1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...

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1875

Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland Menzies) issued a History of France for Junior Classes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1876: Elizabeth Stone, under the pseudonym of Sutherland...

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1876

Elizabeth Stone , under the pseudonym of Sutherland Menzies, published a volume in Collins 's School Series, entitled History of Germany for Junior Classes.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1877: The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland...

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1877

The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland Menzies issued under her pseudonym a two history books this year in the CollinsSchool Series.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

29 December 1940: St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an...

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29 December 1940

St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...

1963: Collins published Patricia Moyes's detective...

Women writers item

1963

Collins published Patricia Moyes 's detective novel Murder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

January 1974: Collins published The Property of a Gentleman,...

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January 1974

Collins published The Property of a Gentleman, a novel by Catherine Gaskin .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...

Women writers item

1983

The title of Maggie Ross 's novel Milena, published by Collins , refers to Kafka 's mistress Milena Jesenská .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

23 September 2010: The British edition appeared of US author...

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23 September 2010

The British edition appeared of US author Jonathan Franzen 's latest novel, Freedom. Within a couple of weeks the edition had to be pulped.
Brown, Derek. “Week in Britain. A mistake of genius”. Guardian Weekly, 8 Oct. 2010, p. 16.

14 July 2015: Harper Lee's first-written but rejected novel,...

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14 July 2015

Harper Lee 's first-written but rejected novel, Go Set a Watchman, reached print from HarperCollins . It is set later in the lives of characters in her wildly successful and so far only novel,...

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