In 1985 Heinemann
, who held a sub-contract on Maru from Gollancz, exceeded their rights by authorizing a new edition from the Zimbabwe Publishing House
. BH
was not informed until the book was...
Publishing
Elinor Mordaunt
EM
used her own birth-name, Evelyn May Clowes, for her first travel book, On the Wallaby through Victoria, published in London through Heinemann
, with illustrations.
In the Australian vernacular or strine...
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Willa Cather
This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
35
She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...
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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.
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.
34
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The publishers, Heinemann
, caused controversy by refusing to provide copies on ordinary trade terms to the Times Book Club
. The Times Literary Supplement therefore, even though it printed an appreciative review, urged its...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
There followed in this series How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, 1930, The Great Adventure of Hare, 1931 (originally entitled Hare Goes a-Journeying), and The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog...
Publishing
Enid Bagnold
She was fired for openly criticizing the nurses' lack of compassion.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne.
8
The 15,000 copies printed by Heinemann
, her publisher, sold well.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
62-3
The book was reissued by Virago Press
in Septmber 1978.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1979
Publishing
Bessie Head
Toni Morrison
in her capacity as an editor at Random House
annoyed BH
by wanting to classify these two as young people's books.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
212
Then in early 1979 Heinemann
(the last publisher that could...
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to...
Publishing
F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ
published with Heinemann
a slim volume of twenty-four poems entitled The Happy Bride, dedicated to her husband, Harold Harwood
.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
107
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Constance Lytton
She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke.
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, p. v, xi - xv.
xii
It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL
and Jane Warton...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
AU
kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...
Publishing
Enid Bagnold
In 1970, The Last Joke and Call Me Jacky were published by Heinemann
in London and Little, Brown
in Boston. They were grouped with two of EB
's more popular works, The Chalk Garden...
Publishing
Agatha Christie
She had sent the manuscript to Collins
, who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
263
She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork
, to search for another publisher. Heinemann
signed...
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