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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
Laura Riding
With Robert Graves
, LR
published in LondonA Survey of Modernist Poetry, written at Vienna the previous winter. It was issued through the commercial publishers: Heinemann
and, next year in New York, Doubleday
.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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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...
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
Henry Handel Richardson
At one time HHR
planned to convert her three-novel series into a set of four, to follow the fortunes of Richard Mahony's son Cuffy (a character who, despite his sex, has much of his author...
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press.
233-4
The collection of books used in writing the novel is now at the library of the University of Tasmania
...
Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...
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).
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Laurie
published the first three Elbur Ford novels...
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.
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...
Publishing
E. Nesbit
Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Textual Production
Sarojini Naidu
SN
's first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold, was published by William Heinemann
in London, with an introduction by Arthur Symons
.
The British Library copy was stamped on this date.
Naidu, Sarojini et al. “The Golden Threshold, 1905”. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, PA.
prelims
Textual Production
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring, another volume of poems by SN
, was published by William Heinemann
in London and John Lane
in New York.
The dedication...
Material Conditions of Writing
Elinor Mordaunt
In her novel A Ship of Solace, published in London by William Heinemann
, EM
used an account of her voyage by sailing ship from England to Australia.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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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.