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, 1874–1987.
1970
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
182
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Dedications
Violet Trefusis
VT
's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother
, was brought out by Heinemann
.
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Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
74
Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 3, 11 Feb. 2010, pp. 31-2.
31
Employer
Georgette Heyer
In the same year that she lost the legal battle over her taxes, GH
began working as a reader for Heinemann
, her own publisher. For this she earned only two guineas per book, but...
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
Pamela Frankau
PF
's publishers, Heinemann
, wrote her an ecstatic letter soon after publication to say how well this book was doing.
Literary responses
F. Tennyson Jesse
Fan letters received by FTJ
's publisher, Heinemann
, asserted that she has written rings round Conrad in his own medium, and described this book as the prolongation of the moment of stark beauty when...
Literary responses
Margery Allingham
MA
was almost aggressively upbeat about this book: Bloody good story though I say it. I like it. Whoever doesn't is barmy. . . . We're very sanguine.
qtd. in
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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...
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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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
Elizabeth Robins
Robins's identity was revealed soon after publication, when a review in the Daily Chronicle mentioned that the author had acted in Ibsen's plays.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
42
Her name was added to the second printing of the book...
Publishing
Margaret Kennedy
Though she had, during the last three years, adapted The Constant Nymph for both the stage and the screen, and had written and published a short story, Heinemann
insisted she produce a novel to maintain...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
Heinemann
, emboldened by their success with SG
's novel The Heavenly Twins, 1893, agreed to publish all her previously rejected stories in this volume.Some of the stories here, however, had already appeared in...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
AU
kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...
Timeline
1895: A novel by Mary Lucy Pendered, A Pastoral...
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April 1935: Heinemann, publisher of Bessie Cotter by...
Writing climate item
April 1935
Heinemann
, publisher of Bessie Cotter by Wallace Smith
, was fined £100 after pleading guilty to a charge of obscene libel.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
94-5
1939: The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers...
Bagnold, Enid. “The Last Joke”. Four Plays, Heinemann, 1970, pp. 85-164.
Bagnold, Enid. The Loved and Envied. Heinemann, 1951.
Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, 1925, p. v, xi - xv.
Beeching, Wilfred A. Century of the Typewriter. Heinemann, 1974.
Hafiz,. Poems from the Divan of Hafiz. Translator Bell, Gertrude, Heinemann, 1897.
Blackwood, Caroline. Corrigan. Heinemann, 1984.
Blackwood, Caroline. Good Night Sweet Ladies. Heinemann, 1983.
