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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 138 OCLC WorldCat. |
Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
's strong, wilful, and playful personality, in addition to her beauty, attracted many suitors. Her admirers included publisher William Heinemann
and Sir Alfred Mond
(owner of the English Review). She described Harold Child |
Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | One dinner-party at William Heinemann
's featured the artist James McNeill Whistler
(whose paintings were much in evidence on the walls), Edmund Gosse
and his wife
, FAS
and her daughter, and Catharine Amy Dawson Scott |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 51, 77, 187 |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | While CADS
met with disapproval from her family for her two feminist novels; she received support from the literary community. Her publisher and friend William Heinemann
wrote to her, Your characters are exceedingly vivid—I have... |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf
wrote to Heinemann
: the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott... |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Tennant, StephenEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 96 |
Other Life Event | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
helped William Heinemann
, William Archer
, and Elizabeth Robins
put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German... |
politics | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's possessions were auctioned off in the market square, which she had decorated in suffragette colours. She had arranged that her publisher, William Heinemann
, should buy the first lot: manuscripts which included the... |
Publishing | F. Tennyson Jesse | William Heinemann
had read FTJ
's stories in the English Review, and asked her to meet him to discuss a book publication. They became good friends, dining once a week when she was in... |
Publishing | F. Tennyson Jesse | She had been growing increasingly disenchanted with Heinemann
ever since William Heinemann
died in 1920 and Charles Evans
became the chairman of the firm. She failed to produced a new novel during the war, and... |
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, 1925, p. v, xi - xv. xii |
Publishing | Ada Cambridge | AC
's association with the publisher William Heinemann
of London began with the publication of A Marked Man. Although she published with several other companies, Heinemann
remained her primary publisher from this time. Cambridge, Ada, and Elizabeth Morrison. A Woman’s Friendship. New South Wales University Press, 1988. xvi, xxiv |
Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like... |
Publishing | Willa Cather | This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9 - 39. 35 |