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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 | 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 | |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
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 | 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... |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo
. But after the first book, Lost Children, the head... |
Publishing | E. M. Delafield | In 1931, Harper
brought out an illustrated American edition with drawings by Arthur Watts
and an introduction by Mary Borden
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | Millay asked Harper
to make the printed version a big flat book perhaps 14 by 10 with many colored illustrations . . . . a Christmas gift book and as gaudy as a Christmas tree... |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | |
Reception | Charlotte Guest | Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey
: many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere... |
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