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Publishing Georgette Heyer
GH published at least one book a year in England between 1921 and 1960, sometimes more. Her publication history in the United States is more sporadic because she did not have an established American publisher...
Publishing Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
Publishing Laurence Hope
Hope's poetry continued to appear in new editions well after her death. Laurence Hope's Poems, 1907, collected some stray pieces not about India; it was dismissed by Harold Williams as too inferior to mention...
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.
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Publishing Buchi Emecheta
The British edition published by Allison and Busby in London came out five months later than the BrazillerNew York edition, even though they had the manuscript first and had sold the rights to Braziller
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
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.
245
Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG
Publishing Shena Mackay
Heinemann now became her regular publisher for several years.
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
From this date onwards her primary publishing relationship was with W. Heinemann of London.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Georgette Heyer
Pressed for money, GH sold three of her most valuable copyrights (this book, These Old Shades, and Devil's Cub) to Heinemann for a total of only £750.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
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Publishing Jean Plaidy
Her other two titles under this name were Bed Disturbed (1952) and Such Bitter Business (1953, published as Evil in the House in the USA in 1954).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Laurie published the first three Elbur Ford novels...
Publishing Catherine Cookson
CC 's rise toward icon status began with Anthony Sheil 's purchase of her agents Christy and Moore ; he moved her books from Macdonald to the more publicity-conscious Heinemann .
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable.
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Publishing Vita Sackville-West
The publisher of this and later editions was Heinemann . It was reprinted in fourteen impressions that year, and by 1971, 100,000 copies had been sold in Britain alone, as well as appearing in VSW
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
BE had begun The Slave Girl in 1975, but had had to put it aside to revise her previous book, write plays for television and move to a house.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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It went into many...
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...

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