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She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall.While she worked at it, some lines from an Emily Brontë poem (Self-Interrogation) came...

The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott , who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in...

DDM felt that Gollancz and Doubleday were not doing as much publicity for her as they once had, though she knew that by refusing to do television publicity she was not helping with sales and...

As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why...

MA 's last completed novel, The Mind Readers, appeared in the USA (from Morrow 's instead of, as previously, Doubleday 's); English publication followed in late October.

VW negotiated with American publishers over the rights to The Voyage Out and Night and Day; George H. Doran of New York became her first American publisher.

The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much...

Doubleday published PH 's novel The Glass Cell, but only after compelling her to do a great deal of painful cutting which left some pages of the former version only three lines long.

MW issued another novel with a lengthy time-span, A Sensible Life, her first to be published with Bantam .

PH 's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday 's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann as A Suspension of Mercy.

She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. The English publisher was Michael Joseph

She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder and £2,000 from Doubleday .

The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters. After writing and publishing an...

The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...

The prospect of personal revelations in this book aroused great anticipation. A Doubleday editor, no less than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , offered $100,000 for world rights and was disappointed not to get them. On...