Sarah Millin
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Sarah Gertrude Millin, born Sarah Gertrude Liebson (1889 - 1968) was a Lithuanian-born South African writer.
Her husband is Philip Millin, a leading judge of South Africa's Supreme Court, who died of heart failure on the bench in a crowded court.
"There is a convention that it is in rather bad taste to write with passion about illness and death, one's personal sorrow, the miseries of widowhood. Mrs Millin, in her second volume of autobiography, has defied this convention with blazing courage, great honesty and complete success. When she began to write this book her husband, a leading judge of South Africa's Supreme Court, was alive, and she herself at the pinnacle of her career as a writer. He died suddenly, on the bench, of heart failure and her life fell to pieces. What makes (the book) remarkable, apart from the interest of its matter and the pungency of its writing, is the extraordinary degree of honesty brought to the task. Philip Millin, the young lawyer whom she married and whose career developed as brilliantly as her own, is drawn with love and authority. It would be difficult to imagine a more satisfying tribute. Mrs Millin's intimacy, as friend and biographer, with General Smuts has given her a deep insight into the great part he played South African politics, she records his decline with sorrowful disillusion. Few women could have written of widowhood as she has done. Nothing is softened, and her own forceful, impatient uncompromising character emerges from the book as clearly as her husband's and as though cut in granite." (Margaret Lane in the Sunday Times, regarding Millin's autobiographical work "The Measure of My Days.")
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- Martin Rubin wrote "Sarah Gertrude Millin: A South African Life," published by A.D. Donker, South Africa in 1977. "Vivid, vociferous, controversial, Sarah Gertrude Millin made a definite impression, whether favourable or unfavourable, on all who met her. As a novelist of some international standing in the 1920s and 1930s, she resented being compared with Olive Schreiner, corresponded with Katharine Mansfield, was shocked by D.H. Lawrence, admired John Galsworthy, compared insomnias with Theodore Dreiser, and attacked T.S. Eliot on the grounds of anti-Semitism."
- J.P.L. Snyman wrote a bibliography of Millin's works in 1955 entitled "The Works of Sarah Gertrude Millin"
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- "The Dark River"
The first British edition was published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1919. The first American edition was published by Thomas Seltzer in 1920. Constable & Co. Ltd. published another British first thus edition in 1928 within its Constable's Miscellany series.
The first British edition was published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1921. No American edition is known to exist. Constable & Co. Ltd. published another British first thus edition in 1928 within its Constable's Miscellany series.
- "Adam's Rest"
The first British edition was published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1922. The first American edition was published by Horace Liveright in 1930. Constable & Co. Ltd. published another British first thus edition in 1928 within its Constable's Miscellany series.
- "The Jordans"
The first British edition was published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1923. No American edition is known to exist. Constable & Co. Ltd. published another British first thus edition in 1928 within its Constable's Miscellany series.
- "God's Stepchildren"
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd. in 1924. The first American edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1924. This novel launched Millin's career as a novelist and enjoyed multiple printings. Grosset & Dunlap published this novel in 1927.
- "Mary Glenn"
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd. in 1925. The first American edition was published by Boni & Liveright in December, 1925. Grosset & Dunlap published this novel in 1926. This novel was adapted as a play, being first produced retitled "No Longer Mourn" in London, England, at Gate Theatre, in 1935.
- "The South Africans" (nonfiction)
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1926. The first American edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1927.
- "The Coming of the Lord"
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1928. The first American edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1928. Grosset & Dunlap also published this novel.
- "An Artist in the Family"
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1928. The first American edition was published by Boni & Liveright in February, 1928.
- "The Fiddler"
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1929. The first American edition was published by Horace Liveright in 1929. Penguin Books (UK) released a paperback version in 1937.
- "Men on a Voyage" (essays)
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1930. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The Sons of Mrs Aab"
The first British edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1931. The first American edition was published by Horace Liveright in 1931.
- "The Sons of Mrs Aab"
The first British edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1931. The first American edition was published by Horace Liveright in 1931.
- "Rhodes"
The first British edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1933. The first American edition was titled "Cecil Rhodes" and published by Harper & Brothers in 1933. Grosset & Dunlap also published this novel. The Central News Agency of Rhodesia and South Africa published a revised edition in 1952. Krauss Reprint Company released an edition in 1969.
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- original work of the movie "Rhodes of Africa", 1936, UK ("Rhodes", US title)
- "Three Men Die"
The first British edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1934. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers in 1934.
- "General Smuts" (2 volumes, nonfiction)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1936. The first American edition was published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1936.
- "What Hath a Man?"
The first British edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1938. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers in 1938.
- "The Herr Witchdoctor"
The first British edition was published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in June, 1941. The first American edition was titled "The Dark Gods" and was published by Harper & Brothers in 1941.
- "The Night is Long" (nonfiction autobiography)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in May, 1941. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The British Commonwealth & Empire" (nonfiction)
The first British edition was published by W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. in 1943. Millin contributed the section regarding South Africa. No other editions are known to exist.
- "World Blackout" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1944. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The Reeling Earth" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1945. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The Pit of the Abyss" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1946. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The Sound of the Trumpet" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1947. No other editions are known to exist.
- "Fire Out of Heaven" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1947. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The Seven Thunders" (nonfiction diary of World War II)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1948. No other editions are known to exist.
- "The King of the Bastards"
The first British edition was published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in 1950. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949.
- "The People of South Africa" (nonfiction)
The first British edition was published by Constable & Co., Ltd. in 1951. The first American edition was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. Greenwood Press released a reprint in 1977.
- "The Burning Man"
The first British edition was published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in 1952. The first American edition was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1952.
- "The Measure of My Days" (nonfiction autobiography)
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1955. The first American edition was published by Abelard-Schuman in 1955. The first South African and Rhodesian edition was published by Central News Agency, South Africa, and Kingston's, Rhodesia in 1955.
- "Two Bucks Without Hair & Other Stories"
The first British edition was published by Faber & Faber, Ltd. in 1957. There exists no American edition. The first South African and Rhodesian edition was published by Central News Agency, South Africa, and Kingston's, Rhodesia in 1957.
- "The Wizard Bird"
The first British edition was published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in 1962. There exists no American edition. The first South African and Rhodesian edition was published by Central News Agency, South Africa, and Kingston's, Rhodesia in 1962.
- "Goodbye, Dear England"
The first British edition was published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in 1965. No other editions are known to exist.
- "White Africans Are Also People" (Millin as compiler)
The first South African edition was published by Howard Timmons in 1966. The first British edition was published by Bailey Swinfen in 1966. No other editions are known to exist.
