From this date onwards her primary publishing relationship was with W. Heinemann
of London.
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Publishing
Georgette Heyer
Pressed for money, GH
sold three of her most valuable copyrights (this book, These Old Shades, and Devil's Cub) to Heinemann
for a total of only £750.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
30
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).
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Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable.
274
Publishing
Vita Sackville-West
The publisher of this and later editions was Heinemann
. It was reprinted in fourteen impressions that year, and by 1971, 100,000 copies had been sold in Britain alone, as well as appearing in VSW
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.
191-2, 214
It went into many...
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...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
SG
's publisher, Heinemann
, priced the novel at six shillings.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
537
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
DW
published her first book, the novel Young Anne, with Jonathan Cape
after it had been first rejected by Heinemann
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...
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...
Reception
Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
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Texts
O’Brien, Kate. Pray for the Wanderer. Heinemann, 1938.