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...
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Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann
, the publisher of Gosse's translation, had secured the English rights to the play, thereby preventing Archer from writing his own translation. Instead, Archer persuaded ER
and actress Marion Lea
to get Heinemann's permission...
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F. Tennyson Jesse
It was reprinted twice by Heinemann
this year and twice in 1930. There were four other editions in the next two decades, and Evans Brothers
obtained the copyright to print it in 1951. The 1979...
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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, 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...
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ending her hiatus in publishing fiction, ELV
issued her final novel, Put Off Thy Shoes, which completed her trilogy that began with The Gadfly in 1897.
Her publisher, Heinemann
, advertised this book as...
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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...
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Elizabeth Robins
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.
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Her name was added to the second printing of the book...
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F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
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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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Ethel Lilian Voynich
The novel was first published in New York City because Heinemann
, the British publisher, feared the potential for negative reaction in London. However, it was soon afterwards published in the UK too.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press.
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Oram, Hugh. An Irishman’s Diary.
Kennedy, Gerry. The Booles & The Hintons: Two dynasties that helped shape the modern world. Cork University Press.
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Caroline Blackwood
CB
changed publishers to Heinemann
for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare
's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot
in The Waste Land:...
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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.
The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann
took it on.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press
, probably because it turned out too long...
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Buchi Emecheta
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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F. Tennyson Jesse
She had been growing increasingly disenchanted with Heinemann
ever since William Heinemann
died in 1920 and Charles Evans
became the chairman of the firm. She failed to produced a new novel during the war, and...