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
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
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.
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
Ada Cambridge
AC
's association with the publisher William Heinemann
of London began with the publication of A Marked Man. Although she published with several other companies, Heinemann
remained her primary publisher from this time.
Cambridge, Ada, and Elizabeth Morrison. A Woman’s Friendship. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
xvi, xxiv
Publishing
Laurence Hope
Hope's poetry continued to appear in new editions well after her death. Laurence Hope's Poems, 1907, collected some stray pieces not about India; it was dismissed by Harold Williams
as too inferior to mention...
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
She originally titled the book Equipment, but on the advice of F. Tennyson Jesse
(a reader for her publisher, Heinemann
), the title was changed. EMD
had wanted a pseudonym to distinguish herself from...
Publishing
Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin
and Heinemann
before her friend John Lane
accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
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.
