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.
215, 162
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.
xvi, xxiv
Publishing
Laura Riding
With Robert Graves
, LR
published in LondonA Survey of Modernist Poetry, written at Vienna the previous winter. It was issued through the commercial publishers: Heinemann
and, next year in New York, Doubleday
.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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
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
Elaine Feinstein
EF
wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
24
As an undergraduate at Newnham
, she wrote a novel about the...
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
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.
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press.
128
After writing and publishing an...
Publishing
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS
was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann
and John Murray
rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
45
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Publishing
Enid Bagnold
EB
completed her novel about childbirth entitled The Squire, which was published the following year by Heinemann
in London and Morrow
in New York.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
135
Publishing
Willa Cather
Before appearing in book form it was serialized in McClure's Magazine from February to April under the title Alexander's Masquerade,
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv.
viii
forming, according to Marilee Lindemann
, a kind of coda to the magazine's...
Publishing
Monica Dickens
As she listened to the stories of people living in squalor and desperation she realised, I lived by the pen, and so I must eventually stop looking and listening and go home and shut myself...
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Heinemann
, she says, thought well of this book and intended to do well by it. They printed a run of ten thousand copies, but sold less than one tenth of the run. MBL
's...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
She had sent The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit unsuccessfully to several publishers before Heinemann
. It became a book of 111 pages, with 29 colour illustrations. AU
recommended Dorothy Hutton
as...
Publishing
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...