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
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.
191-2, 214
It went into many...
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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...
Anthologization
Buchi Emecheta
BE
published many articles and essays in various journals, and was a well-known speaker and lecturer. She also had her writings included in several anthologies. One of these is Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in...
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...
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
It was originally published by Ogwugwu Afor
in London and Ibuza, Nigeria, and appeared the same year from Fontana
in London. It was re-issued in Heinemann
's African Writers Series in 1994.BE
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
Florence Farr
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...
Publishing
Elaine Feinstein
EF
wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
24
As an undergraduate at Newnham
, she wrote a novel about the...
Literary responses
Pamela Frankau
PF
's publishers, Heinemann
, wrote her an ecstatic letter soon after publication to say how well this book was doing.
Textual Production
John Galsworthy
The Island Pharisees, JG
's first novel to appear under his own name, was published by William Heinemann
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
8
Publishing
John Galsworthy
Publishers William Heinemann
predicted a large demand for the novel: its initial press run was 45,000 copies.
Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
44-5
The following year, the second Forsyte trilogy was re-issued in an omnibus volume entitled A Modern Comedy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
107
Publishing
Constance Garnett
For this her publisher, Heinemann
, paid her by the piece: twelve shillings per 1,000 words.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25.
21
The work left her eyesight severely weakened, so that she was forced to adopt the method of having...
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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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.