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:...
Publishing
Kate O'Brien
KOB
published an autobiographical travel book, Farewell, Spain; Mary O'Neill
did the drawings for both the American edition (from Garden City, New York) and the British Heinemann
edition.
Robins's identity was revealed soon after publication, when a review in the Daily Chronicle mentioned that the author had acted in Ibsen's plays.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
42
Her name was added to the second printing of the book...
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F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Publishing
Maggie Gee
At her agent's suggestion MG
had left Heinemann
(which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo
, the literary imprint of HarperCollins
. This was to...
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Fay Weldon
She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann
on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee
, her previous publisher, which...
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Georgette Heyer
She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...
Publishing
Kate O'Brien
KOB
wrote this novel while living in a flat in Bloomsbury,
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, p. v - xv.
viii
with some concentrated writing time at Ashford in Kent, after Heinemann
, to whom she had submitted it, gave her an...
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Elizabeth Robins
The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann
took it on.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
232
One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press
, probably because it turned out too long...
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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...
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...
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Sarah Grand
She noted that she had to publish the novel anonymously because My husband had a gt. [sic] dislike to having his name associated with my ideas.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
55
She had begun writing it around 1880 while...
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H. G. Wells
Subtitled An Invention,
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
this novella sold six thousand copies in the first five months after its publication by Heinemann
. It has not been out of print since its publication.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Smith, David C. H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. Yale University Press.
46
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...
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Texts
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
Dickens, Monica. Kate and Emma. Heinemann, 1964.
Dickens, Monica. Last Year When I Was Young. Heinemann, 1974.
Dickens, Monica. The Landlord’s Daughter. Heinemann, 1968.
Dickens, Monica. The Listeners. Heinemann, 1970.
Dickens, Monica. The Room Upstairs. Heinemann, 1966.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Come Wind, Come Weather. Heinemann, 1940.
Du Maurier, Daphne. I’ll Never Be Young Again. Heinemann, 1932.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Loving Spirit. Heinemann, 1931.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Progress of Julius. Heinemann, 1933.
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, 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.