She had sent the manuscript to Collins
, who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable.
qtd. in
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
263
She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork
, to search for another publisher. Heinemann
signed...
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rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.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, 1987.
45
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay.
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, 2005.
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
Mary Lavin
The London edition followed from Michael Joseph
the next year, with a Reader's Union
edition two years after that. There are several modern editions. A Town House
paperback of 1996 has a new introduction by...
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
107
Publishing
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.
236
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
72-3
Publishing
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
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
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.
17
Reception
Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf
(without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann
) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann
, for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...
Reception
Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
Reception
Laurence Hope
A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, Look Back with LoveDaily Telegraph, 11 July 1974.
(11 July 1974)
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Texts
Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953.
O’Brien, Kate. As Music and Splendour. Heinemann, 1958.
O’Brien, Kate. Mary Lavelle. Heinemann, 1936.
O’Brien, Kate. Pray for the Wanderer. Heinemann, 1938.