PH
's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday
's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann
as A Suspension of Mercy.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2026, Numerous volumes.
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Storm Jameson
SJ
planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable
. However, when Michael Sadleir
requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann
, which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...
Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...
Publishing
D. H. Lawrence
The London edition, published by Heinemann
, omits a short, potentially objectionable passage that appears in the New York edition.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
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Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton
changed her publisher to Duckworth
(from Heinemann
) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.
Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, 18 May 1916, p. 236.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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Olivia Manning
This, at three years, was her longest novel in the writing. With it she moved from Heinemann
to Weidenfeld
, but she remained uncertain whether the shift had been a good thing.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
215, 162
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Gladys Henrietta Schütze
She worked on her first novel in secret and was advised by William Pett Ridge
(P. R.) to send it to Sydney Pawling
at Heinemann
, but Pawling sent it back with a...
Publishing
Henry Handel Richardson
It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like...
Publishing
Penelope Lively
For this book she switched publishers, from Heinemann
to Deutsch
. She used her childhood memories, but also did research into tanks, second world memoirs, diaries, and fiction, and into the campaign in the Libyan...
Publishing
Constance Garnett
For this her publisher, Heinemann
, paid her by the piece: twelve shillings per 1,000 words.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25.
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The work left her eyesight severely weakened, so that she was forced to adopt the method of having...
Publishing
Caroline Blackwood
CB
changed publishers to Heinemann
for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare
's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot
in The Waste Land:...
Publishing
Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row
with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
qtd. in
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
128
After writing and publishing an...
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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
Henry Handel Richardson
She felt that her second volume had been a failure, and this made it very hard to go on. Then Heinemann
, with low expectations for sales and set back by the stark undiluted tragedy...
