AC
's association with the publisher William Heinemann
of London began with the publication of A Marked Man. Although she published with several other companies, Heinemann
remained her primary publisher from this time.
Cambridge, Ada, and Elizabeth Morrison. A Woman’s Friendship. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
xvi, xxiv
Publishing
Laurence Hope
Hope's poetry continued to appear in new editions well after her death. Laurence Hope's Poems, 1907, collected some stray pieces not about India; it was dismissed by Harold Williams
as too inferior to mention...
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E. M. Delafield
She originally titled the book Equipment, but on the advice of F. Tennyson Jesse
(a reader for her publisher, Heinemann
), the title was changed. EMD
had wanted a pseudonym to distinguish herself from...
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Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin
and Heinemann
before her friend John Lane
accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
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Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
Heinemann
now became her regular publisher for several years.
Publishing
Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged EA
's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan
published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian
); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
Pressed for money, GH
sold three of her most valuable copyrights (this book, These Old Shades, and Devil's Cub) to Heinemann
for a total of only £750.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 29-30.
30
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Elaine Feinstein
EF
wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
24
As an undergraduate at Newnham
, she wrote a novel about the...
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Sarah Grand
SG
's publisher, Heinemann
, priced the novel at six shillings.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
537
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Alison Uttley
She had sent The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit unsuccessfully to several publishers before Heinemann
. It became a book of 111 pages, with 29 colour illustrations. AU
recommended Dorothy Hutton
as...
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Willa Cather
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...
Publishing
Monica Dickens
As she listened to the stories of people living in squalor and desperation she realised, I lived by the pen, and so I must eventually stop looking and listening and go home and shut myself...
Publishing
Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann
, the publisher of Gosse's translation, had secured the English rights to the play, thereby preventing Archer from writing his own translation. Instead, Archer persuaded ER
and actress Marion Lea
to get Heinemann's permission...
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Texts
Manning, Olivia. The Great Fortune. Heinemann, 1960.
Manning, Olivia. The Play Room. Heinemann, 1969.
Manning, Olivia. The Rain Forest. Heinemann, 1974.
Manning, Olivia. The Remarkable Expedition. Heinemann, 1947.
Manning, Olivia. The Spoilt City. Heinemann, 1962.
Manton, Jo. Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets. Heinemann, 1976.
Manvell, Roger. Ellen Terry. Heinemann, 1968.
Manvell, Roger. Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. Heinemann, 1970.
McCarthy, Mary. The Groves of Academe. Heinemann, 1953.