OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Jane Smiley
Standard Name: Smiley, Jane
Connections
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Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The novel was very well received, both in England and the United States. In the New York Herald Tribune, Lewis Gannett
recommended it as a book to buy, to read, to remember and... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | Smiley
observed that Munro has become more, not less, experiemental with time. |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | Wigs on the Green and its predecessor, Christmas Pudding were re-issued in Vintage
editions for Knopf Doubleday
in 2013, in one volume with an introduction by Jane Smiley
. |
Textual Production | Alice Munro | AM
gathered the work of a couple of decades in Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (titled from a story that appeared in 2001), with a foreword by Jane Smiley
. Rafferty, Terrence. “’Family Furnishings,’, Selected Stories by Alice Munro”. The New York Review of Books, 10 Dec. 2014. |
Timeline
December 1937: US physicist John Atanasoff, after years...
Building item
December 1937
US physicist John Atanasoff
, after years of working on machines to facilitate elaborate calculations, had a brainwave which enabled him successfully to build a desk-size electronic calculating machine (not strictly a computer, since it...
3 March 1959: Ruth Handler put together at her kitchen...
Building item
3 March 1959
Ruth Handler
put together at her kitchen table the prototype Barbie doll, which was unveiled shortly afterwards by Mattel
at this year's American International Toy Fair: a doll with a stylized female body, glamorous in...
Texts
Smiley, Jane. “Rereading. ’Oh God, give me horses!’”. The Guardian, p. Review 20.