William Heinemann

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...

She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke. It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...

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...

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...

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...

A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...

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...

EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend. She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...

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

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

FTJ dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives.