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Publishing | Alice Walker | She clashed with Harcourt
editor Tony Godwin
over this novel. Godwin, recently arrived in the USA from England, proposed corrections which stemmed from misunderstanding, a result of his unfamiliarity with the minor detail of American... |
Publishing | Djuna Barnes | Nightwood was published in New York in March 1937 by Harcourt Brace
, with an introduction by Eliot
praising its great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization... |
Publishing | P. L. Travers | Although the book has been received primarily as children's literature, PLT
claimed that she never wrote specifically for children. This first book was published in London by |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | SB
published with Harcourt Brace
the Joyce
portions of her memoirs as a Christmas gift book entitled Ulysses in Paris. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 412 |
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 | Jan Struther | JS
's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace
, is not held by either the British Library
or the Bodleian Library
.. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 253 Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Publishing | Lucy Boston | She wrote Persephone after the success of her first two books,but it was rejected by almost every publisher in England and by Harcourt Brace
and others in America. It lay in oblivion for thirteen years. Boston, Lucy et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray, 1992. 290-1 |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007. 113 |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | A somewhat revised edition of the book (in which CC
felt she made her case against Murry stronger) was published later the same year in New York by Harcourt Brace
and in London by Martin Secker |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | Friends and publishers had been calling on GS
to write her memoirs. She refused on grounds that it was not her type of writing—though, she said, she would not mind if Alice wanted to pursue... |
Publishing | T. S. Eliot | The first complete edition of TSE
's Four Quartets, the poetic culmination of his spiritual vision, was published by Harcourt Brace
in New York. Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969. 72-3 |
Publishing | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
's final novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Busman's Honeymoon, was published first in the USA by Harcourt Brace
; its UK publication, by Gollancz
, followed in June this year. Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978. 84-5 |
Publishing | Eliza Fay | This followed another reprint from Calcutta, 1908, with an excellent introduction and notes by the Rev. Walter Kelly Firminger
. In 1924 the book was published in the United States by Harcourt Brace
... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Robins | The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann
took it on. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 232 |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | VW
published A Room of One's Own simultaneously with the Hogarth Press
and with Harcourt Brace
in America. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 3: 227n11 |
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