Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
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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 |
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 | Flora Annie Steel | Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS
preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab, Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 96 |
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 | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
later put up the manuscript of chapter one for auction in the marketplace at Talgarth when her goods were distrained because, as a suffragist, she refused to pay taxes without representation. The chapter, with... |
Textual Production | Flora Annie Steel | During a later doldrums period in her novel-writing, FAS
turned to non-fiction with an illustrated book about animals (particularly her dachshund, Angelo) entitled A Book of Mortals, 1905, published as A Fellow Mortal... |
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... |
Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She said that William Heinemann
and other publishers were full of the spirit of commercialism. He had reportedly told her: So tragic is the book, it would never find readers. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
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... |
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 | 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, p. v, xi - xv. xii |
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. 138 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 |
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... |
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