Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Storm Jameson
Though the reunion of Jameson and her son was not permanent, they moved to Weybridge at some point in 1924. She began work on her fifth novel, as her Knopf
salary did not cover their...
She acquired friends in New York, in several distinct circles, many of whom she came later to regard as self-seeking hangers-on. Having changed her US publisher to Knopf
, she became friend of Alfred
and...
Friends, Associates
Storm Jameson
She was once charged by Knopf
with the task of attempting to persuade Wyndham Lewis
to keep them as his American publisher, which she did on a cold, rainy day as vile as his temper...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothy Richardson
DR
's effect on other writers has been estimated as very strong. Those she influenced include May Sinclair
(whose novel Mary Olivier was also serialised in the Little Review), Romer Wilson
, and C. A. Dawson-Scott
Literary responses
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf
wrote to Heinemann
: the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Taylor
Like ET
's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen
found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann
noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET
Material Conditions of Writing
Alice Munro
This collection had an unusually complex and tortuous history. At one point AM
intended it to contain two groups of stories, those centred on the main character, Rose, and others involving another woman named Janet...
Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
The edition from Knopf
, New York, October 1924, was titled The Little Girl.
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
Elizabeth Taylor
Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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Publishing
Freya Stark
FS
published, with John Murray
, East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf
published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.