Penguin

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Penelope Mortimer
PM published a volume of her New Yorker stories as Saturday Lunch with the Brownings, which became a Penguin paperback in 1977.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion, 2005.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Mary Renault
When MR received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane , the hardback division of Penguin . After the death of...
Publishing Constance Holme
Late in life CH wrote, it is not easy for a woman to be the simple and natural devotée of an art as a man can. I have had to be house wife, agent's...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
During the interim Woolf's overall sales went up by at least half, and a Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics set of her works (taking a feminist approach) was commissioned, along with several other new editions. Publishers were...
Publishing Deborah Levy
This was reissued by Penguin together with Beautiful Mutants and under the title Early Levy, 2014. The combination was reprinted by Bloomsbury Publishing the next year as Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels.
Levy, Deborah. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Publishing Muriel Spark
In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham (who had sold some Penguin paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic...
Publishing Anita Desai
A Penguin edition appeared the following year.
Publishing Deborah Levy
Levy says she began writing this reluctantly. I didn't really want to go back in my mind to that cruel society, to waiting for Dad to come back.
Chunn, Louise. “Deborah Levy interview”. Mslexia, No. 58, June 2013, pp. 51-3.
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The result was reprinted early the...
Publishing Monica Dickens
It had a Penguin edition the following year.
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
She submitted the manuscript to the Ouspensky Society , of which she was at the time a member, and they insisted on some insignificant cuts. She was finding she could not make a living on...
Publishing Liz Lochhead
Published by Penguin , this book reproduces on its cover a portrait of LL by Claudia Petretti . The volume was reprinted twice in two years for a total of 8,500 copies.
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 170-91.
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Publishing Helen Oyeyemi
Bloomsbury in London and Penguin in New York published HO 's second novel, The Opposite House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Isak Dinesen
This was reprinted in a Penguin edition in 2001.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Fay Weldon
She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee , her previous publisher, which...
Publishing Margery Allingham
Penguin Books paid MA the compliment of re-issuing ten of her books published during 1929-45, all of them Albert Campion novels except Black Plumes.
British Book News. British Council.
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Texts

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford; Cousin Phillis. Editor Keating, Peter John, Penguin, 1986.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Gothic Tales. Editor Kranzler, Laura, Penguin, 2000.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Shelston, Alan, Penguin, 1975.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates, editors. “Introduction”. The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987, p. ix - xviii.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Penguin, 1996.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin, 1992.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995.
Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Harris, Sharon M., editor. Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Penguin, 2003.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7-50.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
Hill, Susan. Family. Penguin, 1990.
Holligdale, Reginald John, and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Translator’s Notes”. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ, Penguin, 1990, pp. 25-7.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin, 1980.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Penguin, 1967.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. Penguin, 1994.