Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
115
Publishing
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
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
233-4
The collection of books used in writing the novel is now at the library of the University of Tasmania
...
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
H. G. Wells
Subtitled An Invention,
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
this novella sold six thousand copies in the first five months after its publication by Heinemann
. It has not been out of print since its publication.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Smith, David C. H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. Yale University Press, 1986.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
FAS
is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
274
Publishing
Vita Sackville-West
The publishers, Heinemann
, gave her an advance of £150.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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
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, 1994.
191-2, 214
It went into many...
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).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Laurie
published the first three Elbur Ford novels...
Publishing
Constance Lytton
She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke.
Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, 1925, p. v, xi - xv.
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It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL
and Jane Warton...
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...
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan
. They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...
