JC
published with Heinemann
in London and Douglas and MacIntyre
in Vancouver a poetry volume called House of Changes, dedicated to Tony a rare fish.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Couzyn, Jeni. House of Changes. Heinemann Educational, 1978.
prelims
Publishing
F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Publishing
Maggie Gee
At her agent's suggestion MG
had left Heinemann
(which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo
, the literary imprint of HarperCollins
. This was to...
Publishing
Margery Allingham
MA
published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus
, which had succeeded to Heinemann
as her English publisher.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
248, 171
Publishing
Fay Weldon
She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann
on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee
, her previous publisher, which...
Publishing
Kate O'Brien
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.
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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.
viii
with some concentrated writing time at Ashford in Kent, after Heinemann
, to whom she had submitted it, gave her an...
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)
Reception
Storm Jameson
Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last...
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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.