Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
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Publishing | Willa Cather | The title comes from that of a French pastoral painting by Jules Breton
, which Cather bought for her brother Roscoe in 1908. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago. 90 Cather, Willa. “A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather”. The Willa Cather Archive, edited by Andrew Jewell et al. to Roscoe Cather, 2 March 1908 |
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 |
Publishing | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Dixon said she had begun this work in 1892-3, before the rush of woman-books began. Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate. 124 |
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 | George Egerton | After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 28 |
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 | 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. 245 |
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... |
Publishing | Violet Hunt | Her agent J. B. Pinker
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who agreed to publish it on the condition that Hunt should change its ending: she would not find an audience, he insisted, for... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | SG
's essays and articles for journals were largely written for a middle-class, female audience. She began writing them for the income they provided: in a letter to William Heinemann
on 16 September 1893 she... |
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... |
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