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...
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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.
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press.
128
After writing and publishing an...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
In the Australian vernacular or strine...
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Willa Cather
This book too dated back to 1911, when WC
produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
35
She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...
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Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to...
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F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ
published with Heinemann
a slim volume of twenty-four poems entitled The Happy Bride, dedicated to her husband, Harold Harwood
.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
115
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John Galsworthy
Publishers William Heinemann
predicted a large demand for the novel: its initial press run was 45,000 copies.
Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
44-5
The following year, the second Forsyte trilogy was re-issued in an omnibus volume entitled A Modern Comedy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The publishers, Heinemann
, caused controversy by refusing to provide copies on ordinary trade terms to the Times Book Club
. The Times Literary Supplement therefore, even though it printed an appreciative review, urged its...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
There followed in this series How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, 1930, The Great Adventure of Hare, 1931 (originally entitled Hare Goes a-Journeying), and The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog...
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Texts
Manning, Olivia. The Rain Forest. Heinemann, 1974.
Manning, Olivia. The Remarkable Expedition. Heinemann, 1947.
Manning, Olivia. The Spoilt City. Heinemann, 1962.
Manvell, Roger. Ellen Terry. Heinemann, 1968.
Manvell, Roger. Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. Heinemann, 1970.
McCarthy, Mary. The Groves of Academe. Heinemann, 1953.