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
Margaret Kennedy
Though she had, during the last three years, adapted The Constant Nymph for both the stage and the screen, and had written and published a short story, Heinemann
insisted she produce a novel to maintain...
Publishing
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
Margery Allingham
MA
published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus
, which had succeeded to Heinemann
as her English publisher.
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
248, 171
Publishing
Sarah Grand
Heinemann
, emboldened by their success with SG
's novel The Heavenly Twins, 1893, agreed to publish all her previously rejected stories in this volume. Some of the stories here, however, had already appeared...
Publishing
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, pp. 32-4.
32
Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, pp. 4-5.
4
It was then rejected by a whole...
Publishing
Frances Hodgson Burnett
This novel (whose working title was Mistress Mary) was written entirely in the USA. FHB
had finished or nearly finished it by April this year, but since she was near her family while writing...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
Jeni Couzyn
JC
published with Heinemann
in London and Douglas and MacIntyre
in Vancouver a poetry volume called House of Changes, dedicated to Tony a rare fish.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1979
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Couzyn, Jeni. House of Changes. Heinemann Educational.
prelims
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
The book was published by William Collins
in London. It appeared in New York from George Braziller
as The Family in March 1990, and in Heinemann
's African Writers Series under its original title...
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Texts
Fraser, Antonia. Political Death. Heinemann, 1994.
Furlong, Monica. Genuine Fake: A Biography of Alan Watts. Heinemann, 1986.
Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property. Heinemann, 1906.