Mrs. Bridge

US Viking 1959 is the unambiguous true first (Connell's first novel; a portion appeared earlier in The Paris Review as 'The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge'). The census note of a 'UK Heinemann 1959' could NOT be corroborated and is corrected: no 1959 British edition was located — the earliest UK appearances traced are later (a Heinemann issue dated 1960 per marketplace listings only, and a 1983 Sinclair Browne, London, reprint). The US edition is the collected first.