William Heinemann

Standard Name: Heinemann, William

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Publishing Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
245
Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG
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...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab,
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
96
1894, of which she liked neither the title nor the illustrations by...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
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...
Textual Production Flora Annie Steel
During a later doldrums period in her novel-writing, FAS turned to non-fiction with an illustrated book about animals (particularly her dachshund, Angelo) entitled A Book of Mortals, 1905, published as A Fellow Mortal...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
SG 's essays and articles for journals were largely written for a middle-class, female audience. She began writing them for the income they provided: in a letter to William Heinemann on 16 September 1893 she...

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