William Heinemann

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...

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...

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...

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.Murray 's suggestion that...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab, 1894, of which she liked neither the title nor the illustrations by...

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...