Before appearing in book form it was serialized in McClure's Magazine from February to April under the title Alexander's Masquerade,
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xliv.
viii
forming, according to Marilee Lindemann
, a kind of coda to the magazine's...
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Violet Hunt
Her agent J. B. Pinker
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who agreed to publish it on the condition that Hunt should change its ending: she would not find an audience, he insisted, for...
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Elizabeth Robins
Robins's identity was revealed soon after publication, when a review in the Daily Chronicle mentioned that the author had acted in Ibsen's plays.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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Her name was added to the second printing of the book...
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Margaret Kennedy
Though she had, during the last three years, adapted The Constant Nymph for both the stage and the screen, and had written and published a short story, Heinemann
insisted she produce a novel to maintain...
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Sarah Grand
Heinemann
, emboldened by their success with SG
's novel The Heavenly Twins, 1893, agreed to publish all her previously rejected stories in this volume.Some of the stories here, however, had already appeared in...
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Alison Uttley
AU
kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...
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Willa Cather
This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.
35
She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...
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Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to...
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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
One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press
, probably because it turned out too long...
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Margaret Kennedy
The publication of her seventh novel marked her move from Heinemann
to Cassell
. Virago
reissued this novel as part of its Modern Classics series in 1981 with an introduction by Kennedy's author-daughter, Julia Birley
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Sarah Grand
In 1933SG
's admiring friend Gladys Singers-Bigger
privately published at Bath, undated, for the benefit of The Mayoress Fresh Air Fund, a booklet of quotations from SG
's writings entitled The Breath of...
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Olivia Manning
This novel was published by Heinemann
, with whom OM
was to stay until 1974, although she had already begun to complain of their undervaluing her and failing to sell her books.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
159
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Enid Bagnold
She was fired for openly criticizing the nurses' lack of compassion.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne, 1986.
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The 15,000 copies printed by Heinemann
, her publisher, sold well.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
62-3
The book was reissued by Virago Press
in Septmber 1978.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
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Henry James
It appeared as a volume in London by William Heinemann
on 25 April 1899, preceding the New York edition of 14 May.
Edel, Leon et al. A Bibliography of Henry James. 3rd edition, Clarendon Press, 1982.
115
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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Daphne Du Maurier
She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay.