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...
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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.
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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...
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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:...
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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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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...
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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...
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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
Antonia White
Her husband Tom Hopkinson used persuasion and compulsion to get her to complete her manuscript, giving her deadlines for reading it to him, chapter by chapter.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, 10 June 1999, pp. 4-5.
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It was then rejected by a whole...
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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
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
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
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...
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Dorothy Whipple
DW
published her first book, the novel Young Anne, with Jonathan Cape
after it had been first rejected by Heinemann
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Bessie Head
In 1985 Heinemann
, who held a sub-contract on Maru from Gollancz, exceeded their rights by authorizing a new edition from the Zimbabwe Publishing House
. BH
was not informed until the book was...
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Elinor Mordaunt
EM
used her own birth-name, Evelyn May Clowes, for her first travel book, On the Wallaby through Victoria, published in London through Heinemann
, with illustrations.
