She said that William Heinemann
and other publishers were full of the spirit of commercialism. He had reportedly told her: So tragic is the book, it would never find readers.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Murray
's suggestion that...
Publishing
Elizabeth Grant
Strachey's popular edition was reprinted four more times that year and publisher John Murray
reported a demand for still further copies.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1988.
vii
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
RM
's previous publisher, John MurrayJohn Murray
, was astonished to learn of her win: she had not submitted the manuscript to him. However, he wrote her a congratulatory note, which he concluded: If at any...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Rigby
Although she grew increasingly frail, ER
continued writing throughout her last years. In January 1889 (her eightieth year) she published in the Quarterly Review another anonymous piece on Italy, Venice: Her Institutions and Private...
Timeline
12 March 1896: The Publishers Association was officially...
Writing climate item
12 March 1896
The Publishers Association
was officially founded at a constitutional meeting in Stationers' Hall, London.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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Curwen, Peter. The UK Publishing Industry. Pergamon Press, 1981.
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Feltes, Norman N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. University of Chicago Press, 1986.