William Heinemann

FTJ dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives.

FTJ 's strong, wilful, and playful personality, in addition to her beauty, attracted many suitors. Her admirers included publisher William Heinemann and Sir Alfred Mond (owner of the English Review). She described Harold Child

One dinner-party at William Heinemann 's featured the artist James McNeill Whistler (whose paintings were much in evidence on the walls), Edmund Gosse and his wife , FAS and her daughter, and Catharine Amy Dawson Scott

EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend. She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...

While CADS met with disapproval from her family for her two feminist novels; she received support from the literary community. Her publisher and friend William Heinemann wrote to her, Your characters are exceedingly vivid—I have...

Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf wrote to Heinemann : the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott...

A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...

EHD helped William Heinemann , William Archer , and Elizabeth Robins put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German...

FAS 's possessions were auctioned off in the market square, which she had decorated in suffragette colours. She had arranged that her publisher, William Heinemann , should buy the first lot: manuscripts which included the...

She had been growing increasingly disenchanted with Heinemann ever since William Heinemann died in 1920 and Charles Evans became the chairman of the firm. She failed to produced a new novel during the war, and...

She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke. It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...

Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab, 1894, of which she liked neither the title nor the illustrations by...

This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

FAS later put up the manuscript of chapter one for auction in the marketplace at Talgarth when her goods were distrained because, as a suffragist, she refused to pay taxes without representation. The chapter, with...

She said that William Heinemann and other publishers were full of the spirit of commercialism. He had reportedly told her: So tragic is the book, it would never find readers.Murray 's suggestion that...