Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last...
Reception
Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span>”;. Daily Telegraph.
(11 July 1974)
Reception
Laurence Hope
A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
543
Publishing
Sarah Macnaughtan
It was published by W. Heinemann
, with a reissue by John Murray
in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons
in 1909, 1910, and 1930.
She wrote in her diary about taking it to the post office and registering it for a shilling. She also recorded her mixed feelings: At one minute I feel it is quite good enough to...
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
It was in this year that GH
signed contracts with Heinemann
for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton
for four detective stories.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
29
This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
191
Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
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...
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable.
297
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
Vita Sackville-West
The publishers, Heinemann
, gave her an advance of £150.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
125
The book was soon reprinted, but when VSW
wanted another reprint after the war, when Knole was in the hands of the National Trust...
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
She initially dedicated the book to her daughter Chiedu, but the latter objected, saying she would burn it! BE
told her daughter that she hoped burning books was not a hereditary trait, and dedicated it...
Publishing
Margaret Kennedy
With this publication, Kennedy began an eleven-year relationship with Heinemann
. Virago
republished the book in 1981 as one of its Modern Classics series; it included an introduction by Nicola Beauman
. MK
dedicated her...