She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann
on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee
, her previous publisher, which...
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Georgette Heyer
She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...
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Kate O'Brien
KOB
wrote this novel while living in a flat in Bloomsbury,
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, p. v - xv.
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with some concentrated writing time at Ashford in Kent, after Heinemann
, to whom she had submitted it, gave her an...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
In 1946 Graham Greene
, who worked for the publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode
, tried to arrange for his employers to reissue the seven-year-old A Family and a Fortune as well as ICB
's three...
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Buchi Emecheta
Allison and Busby
gave the book to an American publisher, George Braziller
, in April 1975, a month after publication, and BE
earned ¥322.98. Her publisher also gave her ¥125 publishing fee for the book...
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Sarah Grand
She noted that she had to publish the novel anonymously because My husband had a gt. [sic] dislike to having his name associated with my ideas.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
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She had begun writing it around 1880 while...
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H. G. Wells
Subtitled An Invention,
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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.
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Smith, David C. H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. Yale University Press.
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Georgette Heyer
GH
published at least one book a year in England between 1921 and 1960, sometimes more. Her publication history in the United States is more sporadic because she did not have an established American publisher...
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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...
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Laurence Hope
Hope's poetry continued to appear in new editions well after her death. Laurence Hope's Poems, 1907, collected some stray pieces not about India; it was dismissed by Harold Williams
as too inferior to mention...
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Vita Sackville-West
VSW
published with the Hogarth Press
her first travel book, Passenger to Teheran; she broke her contract with Heinemann
to do so.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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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
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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.
As with On the...
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Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.