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...
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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...
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Agatha Christie
AC
published another Mary Westmacott novel, The Rose and the Yew Tree, this time through Heinemann
.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Patricia Highsmith
PH
dedicated this book to her biological father, at a time when she was on the worst of terms with her mother, and receiving a stream of destructive letters from her. Heinemann
published it in...
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Elizabeth Robins
ER
's sensational novel about the white slave trade, Where Are You Going To...?, was published by Heinemann
in Britain.
The title gives a sinister twist to the ballad Where are you going to...
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Dodie Smith
DS
's novel It Ends with Revelations, about a famous homosexual actor, was published by Heinemann
.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
In 1984 BH
was commissioned by Heinemann
to write her autobiography. She felt she had plenty of records to work from, not for her South African youth but for her Botswanan maturity, and expected that...
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Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring, another volume of poems by SN
, was published by William Heinemann
in London and John Lane
in New York.
The dedication...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB
published her fourth novel, Men and Wives, with Heinemann
: it was the first to have a proper or conventional publisher.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Patricia Highsmith
Other editions followed that same year, including one in the UK from Heinemann
and a translation from Diogenes
in Zurich. There was controversy over this publication. Heinemann
had increased PH
's advance by nearly...
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Buchi Emecheta
BE
published her novelKehinde, a story of African expatriates in England, with Heinemann
's African Writers Series.