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...
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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...
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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.
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.
xii
It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL
and Jane Warton...
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.
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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
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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
She initially dedicated the book to her daughter Chiedu, but the latter objected, saying she would burn it! BE
told her daughter that she hoped burning books was not a hereditary trait, and dedicated it...
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Emmuska Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan
, Heinemann
(where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
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...
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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...
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
297
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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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Texts
Manning, Olivia. The Great Fortune. Heinemann, 1960.
Manning, Olivia. The Play Room. Heinemann, 1969.
Manning, Olivia. The Rain Forest. Heinemann, 1974.
Manning, Olivia. The Remarkable Expedition. Heinemann, 1947.
Manning, Olivia. The Spoilt City. Heinemann, 1962.
Manton, Jo. Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets. Heinemann, 1976.
Manvell, Roger. Ellen Terry. Heinemann, 1968.
Manvell, Roger. Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. Heinemann, 1970.
McCarthy, Mary. The Groves of Academe. Heinemann, 1953.