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.
256
Dedications
Violet Trefusis
VT
's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother
, was brought out by Heinemann
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
74
Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 3, pp. 31-2.
31
Publishing
Viola Tree
Heinemann
published VT
's unusual biography of her husband, Alan Parsons
' Book, A Story in Anthology, which she had first offered to the Hogarth Press
.
Together FAS
and Grace Gardiner
published The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, a work of instruction for colonial women that ran to ten editions (beginning the same year).
A rumoured first edition of 1888...
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
FAS
is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
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...
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
Ten years after the death of Martin Ross
, ES
published The Big House of Inver, as by Ross and herself: the first of several of her books published by William Heinemann
.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
263
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
DS
's novel It Ends with Revelations, about a famous homosexual actor, was published by Heinemann
.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
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)
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
The New Moon with the Old, a novel by DS
about a privileged family who lose their fortune, was published by Heinemann
.