Literary Guild

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Reception Mary Stewart
The Crystal Cave was both a commercial and a critical success, appearing on the New York Times best-seller list for ten months and selected by the Literary Guild . It brought MS both the Frederick...
Textual Production Mary McCarthy
Harcourt's president, William Jovanovich , had forebodings about this book's reception. Instead of bringing it out with the big fall 1970 books, he chose to publish in the spring. Instead of starting off with...

Timeline

By April 1929: The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold...

Writing climate item

By April 1929

The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold Bennett ) was launched by Hugh Walpole with himself as chairman; it was the first such society in Britain.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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