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
Textual Production
Buchi Emecheta
BE
published her novelKehinde, a story of African expatriates in England, with Heinemann
's African Writers Series.
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...
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Buchi Emecheta
Allison and Busby
gave the book to an American publisher, George Braziller
, in April 1975, a month after publication, and BE
earned ¥322.98. Her publisher also gave her ¥125 publishing fee for the book...
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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
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, 2013.
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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.
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Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.
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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, 1928.
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, 1991.
107
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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, 2014, pp. 14-25.
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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
Frankau, Pamela. The Winged Horse. Heinemann, 1953.
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.