Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last...
Reception
Olivia Manning
The first series was praised by critics but was less than successful in terms of sales. OMbegan to feel that she was neglected as a serious novelist, a view shared by some contemporary writers...
Reception
Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span>”;. Daily Telegraph.
(11 July 1974)
Publishing
Elizabeth Robins
The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann
took it on.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
232
One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press
, probably because it turned out too long...
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
Nova, a magazine that BE
describes as a very glossy high-class magazine for the liberated woman, later decided to serialise In the Ditch.Despite the publisher's concerns, it went into many editions, including one...
Publishing
F. Tennyson Jesse
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...
Publishing
Fay Weldon
She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann
on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee
, her previous publisher, which...
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...
Publishing
Kate O'Brien
KOB
wrote this novel while living in a flat in Bloomsbury,
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, p. v - xv.
viii
with some concentrated writing time at Ashford in Kent, after Heinemann
, to whom she had submitted it, gave her an...
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
In 1946 Graham Greene
, who worked for the publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode
, tried to arrange for his employers to reissue the seven-year-old A Family and a Fortune as well as ICB
's three...
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
Allison and Busby
gave the book to an American publisher, George Braziller
, in April 1975, a month after publication, and BE
earned ¥322.98. Her publisher also gave her ¥125 publishing fee for the book...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
She noted that she had to publish the novel anonymously because My husband had a gt. [sic] dislike to having his name associated with my ideas.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
55
She had begun writing it around 1880 while...
Publishing
H. G. Wells
Subtitled An Invention,
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
this novella sold six thousand copies in the first five months after its publication by Heinemann
. It has not been out of print since its publication.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Smith, David C. H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. Yale University Press.
46
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
GH
published at least one book a year in England between 1921 and 1960, sometimes more. Her publication history in the United States is more sporadic because she did not have an established American publisher...