A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Reception
Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf
(without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann
) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann
, for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...
Reception
Storm Jameson
Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last...
Reception
Olivia Manning
The first series was praised by critics but was less than successful in terms of sales. OMbegan to feel that she was neglected as a serious novelist, a view shared by some contemporary writers...
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
.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
115
Publishing
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
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...
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
107
Publishing
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...
