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.
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xliv.
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It sold 30,000...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
That same year it was published in the USA by Knopf
(to whom MS
had moved from Lippincott
), and it also appeared in a condensed version in the Saturday Evening Post. It was...
Publishing
Storm Jameson
She followed these with other translations of his works: Horla and Other Stories (1925), and (with Ernest Boyd
) Eighty-Eight Short Stories (1930). All of these volumes were put out by Knopf
, the publisher...
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It sold nearly 5,000 copies in six weeks, a further acceleration of the high sales rate (for ICB
) of Elders and Betters.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
That same year it also appeared in New York with publisher Alfred A. Knopf
. The French Window, her second book for children, followed in 1970.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 490
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Knopf
published the work in New York that same year. In 1952, George Harrap
issued a new edition, as did Pan Books
in 1958.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
With this book ICB
's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz
was to reprint her earlier titles.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Its American publication, by Knopf
, preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Muriel Spark
The special copies, produced jointly with Observer Books
, featured an original etching by Michael Ayrton
. The US edition was by Viking
(as were those of MS
's next few books); she had broken...
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Molly Keane
Her children were grown up and she was, she says, doing nothing. She began writing in the same secrecy as at the beginning of her career, still finding the process painful.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
Knopf
declined to publish this novel, on the grounds that ICB
's sales in the USA had been disappointing. In the end it was published by Julian Messner
of New York instead.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Margaret Laurence
She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart
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Alice Munro
Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with...
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D. H. Lawrence
DHL
attempted to find an English or American publisher, but met with no success: the sexual language and actions of Constance Chatterley, the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, and others were seen as immoral and unfit for...
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