In 2010 DM
(with Tim Butcher
, Irvine Welsh
, and others) was one of seven authors commissioned by Plan International to travel to seven countries to gather the stories of girls and young women...
Literary responses
Susan Hill
Margaret Reynolds
and Jonathan Noakes
published in 2003Susan Hill; The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature as one in Vintage
's Living Texts series. Intended for teachers, students, and reading groups, this book discusses four...
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Publishing
Nancy Mitford
This was reprinted in a Vintage
edition for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, along with re-issues of other NM
novels, both early and better-known.
Publishing
Nancy Mitford
Wigs on the Green and its predecessor, Christmas Pudding were re-issued in Vintage
editions for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, in one volume with an introduction by Jane Smiley
.
Publishing
Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage
in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair
, and one from David Campbell
in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
Publishing
A. S. Byatt
ASB
later said she wrote the first draft of this book as an undergraduate, in libraries and lectures, between essays and love affairs. One lecturer supposed she was taking unnecessarily assiduous notes when she was...
Publishing
A. S. Byatt
This book was reprinted as a Vintage
paperback in November 1992. After it came a ten-year break in ASB
's publishing career as a novelist.
Publishing
A. S. Byatt
It was reprinted as a Vintage
paperback next year.
Publishing
Michèle Roberts
For this novel (dedicated to Howard Burns
) the idea came to Roberts in connection with her first transformation into a married woman. She did her extensive, highly enjoyable research for it in libraries in...
Publishing
Michèle Roberts
She revised her manuscript at the kitchen table of a friend's flat in Florence (while her own flat, or her husband's, was uninhabitable because of delayed building work) and again in Boston, Massachusetts, early...
Reception
A. S. Byatt
In her introduction for VintageASB
has written of influences on this novel: the visual influence of Samuel Palmer
's painting Cornfield with the Evening Star and of other representations of moonlight and harvest fields...
Textual Features
A. S. Byatt
This discusses Murdoch's first eight novels. An enlarged Vintage
paperback reprint of about thirty years later, entitled Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, adds ASB
's later writings on Murdoch: essays...
Textual Production
Shena Mackay
SM
published The Artist's Widow, a novel which became a Vintage
paperback the following year.