KOB
published an autobiographical travel book, Farewell, Spain; Mary O'Neill
did the drawings for both the American edition (from Garden City, New York) and the British Heinemann
edition.
This novel (whose working title was Mistress Mary) was written entirely in the USA. FHB
had finished or nearly finished it by April this year, but since she was near her family while writing...
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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...
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Buchi Emecheta
The book was published by William Collins
in London. It appeared in New York from George Braziller
as The Family in March 1990, and in Heinemann
's African Writers Series under its original title...
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ending her hiatus in publishing fiction, ELV
issued her final novel, Put Off Thy Shoes, which completed her trilogy that began with The Gadfly in 1897.
Her publisher, Heinemann
, advertised this book as...
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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...
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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, 1990, p. v - xv.
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with some concentrated writing time at Ashford in Kent, after Heinemann
, to whom she had submitted it, gave her an...
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Buchi Emecheta
It was originally published by Ogwugwu Afor
in London and Ibuza, Nigeria, and appeared the same year from Fontana
in London. It was re-issued in Heinemann
's African Writers Series in 1994.BE
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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.
qtd. in
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
55
She had begun writing it around 1880 while...
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Margery Allingham
She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
The novel was first published in New York City because Heinemann
, the British publisher, feared the potential for negative reaction in London. However, it was soon afterwards published in the UK too.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
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Oram, Hugh. An Irishman’s Diary. 21 Jan. 2008.
Kennedy, Gerry. The Booles & The Hintons: Two dynasties that helped shape the modern world. Cork University Press, 2016.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.