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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

This book too dated back to 1911, when WC produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...

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...

The title comes from that of a French pastoral painting by Jules Breton , which Cather bought for her brother Roscoe in 1908. She later removed the romantic...

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

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...