William Heinemann

Standard Name: Heinemann, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
138
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Family and Intimate relationships F. Tennyson Jesse
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
Friends, Associates Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930.
51, 77, 187
She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...
Friends, Associates Flora Annie Steel
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
Literary responses Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
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...
Literary responses Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
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...
Literary responses Willa Cather
A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
96
H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
Other Life Event Ella Hepworth Dixon
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...
politics Flora Annie Steel
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...
Publishing 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 Ella Hepworth Dixon
Dixon said she had begun this work in 1892-3, before the rush of woman-books began.
qtd. in
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
124
It had first appeared as a serial in Lady's Pictorial, listed with both the author's name and her...
Publishing George Egerton
After receiving Gill's advice, GE sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
28
She then sent it to John Lane at...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
William Heinemann had read FTJ 's stories in the English Review, and asked her to meet him to discuss a book publication. They became good friends, dining once a week when she was in...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
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...
Publishing Constance Lytton
She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke.
Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, 1925, p. v, xi - xv.
xii
It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...

Timeline

1 February 1890: William Heinemann founded his own publishing...

Writing climate item

1 February 1890

William Heinemann founded his own publishing house at 21 Bedford Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
151
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
53

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