Heinemann

She originally titled the book Equipment, but on the advice of F. Tennyson Jesse (a reader for her publisher, Heinemann ), the title was changed. EMD had wanted a pseudonym to distinguish herself from...

SJ planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable . However, when Michael Sadleir requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann , which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...

The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...

The London edition, published by Heinemann , omits a short, potentially objectionable passage that appears in the New York edition.

Reviewers judged EA 's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian ); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...

Mary Agnes Hamilton changed her publisher to Duckworth (from Heinemann ) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.

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. After writing and publishing an...

CADS was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann and John Murray rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.

EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers. As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...

For this book she switched publishers, from Heinemann to Deutsch . She used her childhood memories, but also did research into tanks, second world memoirs, diaries, and fiction, and into the campaign in the Libyan...

EB completed her novel about childbirth entitled The Squire, which was published the following year by Heinemann in London and Morrow in New York.

Before appearing in book form it was serialized in McClure's Magazine from February to April under the title Alexander's Masquerade, forming, according to Marilee Lindemann , a kind of coda to the magazine's...

As she listened to the stories of people living in squalor and desperation she realised, I lived by the pen, and so I must eventually stop looking and listening and go home and shut myself...

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...

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.