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She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...

Her first version (in which she felt she gave too much space to the prison part of the book) was rejected by Harper and Row . They rejected the second version, too, demanding that either...

Her contract, signed in January, was for this and a further untitled work. She was to have an advance of $1,000 on delivering each manuscript, and a 15-percent royalty rising to 20 percent after 5,000...

Hoping that fiction would be more successful than another book on metaphysics, ABB stepped away from philosophy and theology to try her hand at storytelling. Originally she submitted the novel to the literary magazine Harper's...

Harper had wanted the volume to include her preface and two or three new, unpublished sonnets.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...

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...

The book was first published by George H. Doran in New York and two years later by Collins in London.

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.

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...

The book was first published in London by Collins , followed in 1989 by an American edition published by Delacorte Press .

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 ).

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 )...

EH published East Africa for Collins 's British Commonwealth in Pictures series, launched by Hilda Matheson and Dorothy Wellesley .

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...

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...