Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carson McCullers | She began this novel under the title of The Mute while she was ill in bed at the end of 1936. In 1938 her outline won second prize in the Houghton Mifflin
fiction contest, bringing... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
's Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring was published [a]fter much wrangling with Houghton Mifflin
. Although not called a collected poems, the volume brought together new poems (not as many as the... |
| Publishing | Carson McCullers | She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House
to publish... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House
, Viking
, and Simon and Schuster
. Harcourt Brace
offered... |
| Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
| Publishing | Willa Cather | This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. |
| Publishing | Willa Cather | On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39. 35 Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xliv. ix |
| Publishing | Kate Chopin | KC
's third collection of stories, A Vocation and Voice, featured works that had previously been published in a variety of places, including Vogue. The manuscript was rejected by publishers Houghton Mifflin
in... |
| Publishing | Edith Somerville | Again ES
illustrated this book herself. The Houghton Mifflin Company
published both an edition of 1,500 copies selling at $2.50, and a limited autographed edition of 375 copies selling for six dollars. Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952. 264-5 |
| Publishing | Anne Sexton | Houghton Mifflin
had accepted it on 19 May 1959, offering an advance of $200 against royalties. The manuscript was due at the printers on 1 August 1959, but Sexton held it up with last-minute changes.... |
| Publishing | Anne Sexton | She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 240-1 |
| Publishing | Anne Sexton | AS
felt pressed for money as she was writing these poetic narratives, thinking about the looming burden of college bills for her elder daughter. She worked on this book in conjunction with the next two... |
| Publishing | Julia Ward Howe | Serialization of JWH
's memoir Reminiscences: 1819-1899 began in the Atlantic Monthly. A book version with additional chapters was released by Houghton Mifflin
the same year. Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co., 1956. 358 |
| Textual Production | Gwen Moffat | She turned to writing and broadcasting when mountain guiding and other travel-type jobs proved to be inadequately paid. She dedicated the book to her mother, and published it with Hodder and Stoughton
in Britain and... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
accumulated a remarkable roster of awards and prizes, from Houghton Mifflin
's first annual $1,000 Poetry Prize in 1944, through her $2,500 Guggenheim in April 1947 and a travel grant for $7,000 from the... |
Timeline
1852: The US publisher Houghton Mifflin Company...
Writing climate item
1852
The US publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
was founded by Henry Oscar Houghton
as the printing firm of H. O. Houghton and Company
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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2001: Alice Randall's debut novel The Wind Done...
Writing climate item
2001
Alice Randall
's debut novel The Wind Done Gone, which retells Margaret Mitchell
's Gone With the Wind from a slave's perspective, was published by Houghton Mifflin
.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp.
Texts
Welty, Eudora. “A Sweet Devouring”. The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, pp. 246-51.