British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987.
1970
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Anthologization | Buchi Emecheta | BE
published many articles and essays in various journals, and was a well-known speaker and lecturer. She also had her writings included in several anthologies. One of these is Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in... |
Dedications | Olivia Manning | OM
completed her Balkan Trilogy with Friends and Heroes, which she dedicated to Dwye Evans
, managing director of Heinemann
, and his wife Daphne
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1970 Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 182 British Library Catalogue. |
Dedications | Violet Trefusis | VT
's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother
, was brought out by Heinemann
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1635 (1 June 1933): 381 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. Jullian, Philippe, John Nova Phillips, Violet Trefusis, and Vita Sackville-West. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 74 Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, No. 3, pp. 31 - 2. 31 |
Employer | Georgette Heyer | |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
had tea in London with Virginia Woolf
(whom she was hoping to persuade to publish her first novel written in English, Tandem). It appeared next year from Heinemann
. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 256 |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | |
Literary responses | Margery Allingham | |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Punch gave the novel a very positive review, which Heinemann
used in their advertising: An almost uncannily penetrating study of the development of a poseuse. Told with remarkable insight and a care that is both... |
Literary responses | Pamela Frankau | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elinor Mordaunt | In her novel A Ship of Solace, published in London by William Heinemann
, EM
used an account of her voyage by sailing ship from England to Australia. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. British Library Catalogue. |
Author summary | Patricia Highsmith | PH
, writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a... |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | She was fired for openly criticizing the nurses' lack of compassion. Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne, 1986. 8 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 62-3 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1979 |
Publishing | Bessie Head | Toni Morrison
in her capacity as an editor at Random House
annoyed BH
by wanting to classify these two as young people's books. Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press, 2007. 212 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to... |
Publishing | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
published with Heinemann
a slim volume of twenty-four poems entitled The Happy Bride, dedicated to her husband, Harold Harwood
. OCLC WorldCat. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 115 |