Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
107
Publishing
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton
changed her publisher to Duckworth
(from Heinemann
) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.
Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, 18 May 1916, p. 236.
236
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
72-3
Publishing
Olivia Manning
This, at three years, was her longest novel in the writing. With it she moved from Heinemann
to Weidenfeld
, but she remained uncertain whether the shift had been a good thing.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
215, 162
Publishing
Storm Jameson
SJ
planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable
. However, when Michael Sadleir
requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann
, which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...
Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like...
Publishing
Penelope Lively
For this book she switched publishers, from Heinemann
to Deutsch
. She used her childhood memories, but also did research into tanks, second world memoirs, diaries, and fiction, and into the campaign in the Libyan...
Publishing
Constance Garnett
For this her publisher, Heinemann
, paid her by the piece: twelve shillings per 1,000 words.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25.
21
The work left her eyesight severely weakened, so that she was forced to adopt the method of having...
Publishing
Caroline Blackwood
CB
changed publishers to Heinemann
for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare
's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot
in The Waste Land:...
Publishing
Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row
with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
qtd. in
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
128
After writing and publishing an...
Publishing
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
She worked on her first novel in secret and was advised by William Pett Ridge
(P. R.) to send it to Sydney Pawling
at Heinemann
, but Pawling sent it back with a...
Reception
Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf
(without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann
) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann
, for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...
Reception
Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
Reception
Laurence Hope
A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, Look Back with LoveDaily Telegraph, 11 July 1974.
(11 July 1974)
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Texts
Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953.
O’Brien, Kate. As Music and Splendour. Heinemann, 1958.
O’Brien, Kate. Mary Lavelle. Heinemann, 1936.
O’Brien, Kate. Pray for the Wanderer. Heinemann, 1938.
