CB
changed publishers to Heinemann
for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare
's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot
in The Waste Land:...
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Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row
with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
qtd. in
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
128
After writing and publishing an...
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Buchi Emecheta
Nova, a magazine that BE
describes as a very glossy high-class magazine for the liberated woman, later decided to serialise In the Ditch.Despite the publisher's concerns, it went into many editions, including one...
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Henry Handel Richardson
She felt that her second volume had been a failure, and this made it very hard to go on. Then Heinemann
, with low expectations for sales and set back by the stark undiluted tragedy...
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Antonia White
Her husband Tom Hopkinson used persuasion and compulsion to get her to complete her manuscript, giving her deadlines for reading it to him, chapter by chapter.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
32
Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, 10 June 1999, pp. 4-5.
4
It was then rejected by a whole...
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Viola Tree
Heinemann
published VT
's unusual biography of her husband, Alan Parsons
' Book, A Story in Anthology, which she had first offered to the Hogarth Press
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
In 1946 Graham Greene
, who worked for the publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode
, tried to arrange for his employers to reissue the seven-year-old A Family and a Fortune as well as ICB
's three...
Publishing
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
published with the Hogarth Press
her first travel book, Passenger to Teheran; she broke her contract with Heinemann
to do so.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
3: 247n1, 266n3
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Buchi Emecheta
Allison and Busby
gave the book to an American publisher, George Braziller
, in April 1975, a month after publication, and BE
earned ¥322.98. Her publisher also gave her ¥125 publishing fee for the book...
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Henry Handel Richardson
At one time HHR
planned to convert her three-novel series into a set of four, to follow the fortunes of Richard Mahony's son Cuffy (a character who, despite his sex, has much of his author...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
Heinemann
, she says, thought well of this book and intended to do well by it. They printed a run of ten thousand copies, but sold less than one tenth of the run. MBL
's...
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Dorothy Whipple
DW
published her first book, the novel Young Anne, with Jonathan Cape
after it had been first rejected by Heinemann
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Bessie Head
In 1985 Heinemann
, who held a sub-contract on Maru from Gollancz, exceeded their rights by authorizing a new edition from the Zimbabwe Publishing House
. BH
was not informed until the book was...
Publishing
Elinor Mordaunt
EM
used her own birth-name, Evelyn May Clowes, for her first travel book, On the Wallaby through Victoria, published in London through Heinemann
, with illustrations.
