Weidenfeld and Nicolson

This book began from an essay commissioned by Christopher Falkus of Weidenfeld and Nicolson , for a collection by women writing on formative influences on their lives. Warner was at first reluctant, or half-hearted, about...

This launched her career as a publisher's editor. She later did the same kind of work for Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1962-3, and for Blackie , 1964-7.

Her first job after getting her BA was in publishing: as an editor, foreign languages editor, publicity director, and jack of all trades with Weidenfeld and Nicolson . She got the job through personal...

In 1958, the Day-Lewis affair having put an end to her Chatto and Windus job, EJH worked briefly as a fiction editor for Weidenfeld and Nicolson . She gave up this job when her agent,...

She began writing this as a book of 40,000 words on a contract from Weidenfeld and Nicolson for a series called Pleasures and Treasures. When it got too long for the series, Nigel Nicolson

Between 1977 and 1980 OM completed her novel-sequence Fortunes of War, with a second group, The Levant Trilogy, comprising the novels The Danger Tree, The Battle Lost and Won, and The...

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.

After the failure of her second volume of autobiography, PM 's publishers, Weidenfeld and Nicolson , rejected the third volume, which she had entitled Closing Time. She could not persuade any other publisher to take it.

Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson

This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer

Having in a sense revisited the Mary, Queen of Scots story here, she revisited Cromwell in the same ghostly manner in King Charles II, published in early September 1978 (written, she said, therapeutically while...

EH 's book on her daily life in the form of a diary, titled (from a remark of seventeenth-century local historian John Aubrey ) Gallipot Eyes, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson after...

EH 's most successful biography in terms of publicity was Scott of the Antarctic, though it came out badly edited owing to Weidenfeld 's sudden decision to move publication forward to catch shoppers during...

Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...

It had illustrations by Delia Delderfield .EH did herself harm in business terms by declining to sign a contract after Norah Smallwood expressed enthusiasm about a six-month sample, covering April to October 1974. She...