William Heinemann

FTJ dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives.

FTJ 's strong, wilful, and playful personality, in addition to her beauty, attracted many suitors. Her admirers included publisher William Heinemann and Sir Alfred Mond (owner of the English Review). She described Harold Child

EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend. She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...

One dinner-party at William Heinemann 's featured the artist James McNeill Whistler (whose paintings were much in evidence on the walls), Edmund Gosse and his wife , FAS and her daughter, and Catharine Amy Dawson Scott

While CADS met with disapproval from her family for her two feminist novels; she received support from the literary community. Her publisher and friend William Heinemann wrote to her, Your characters are exceedingly vivid—I have...

A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...

Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf wrote to Heinemann : the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott...

EHD helped William Heinemann , William Archer , and Elizabeth Robins put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German...

FAS 's possessions were auctioned off in the market square, which she had decorated in suffragette colours. She had arranged that her publisher, William Heinemann , should buy the first lot: manuscripts which included the...

Dixon said she had begun this work in 1892-3, before the rush of woman-books began. It had first appeared as a serial in Lady's Pictorial, listed with both the author's name and her...

Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab, 1894, of which she liked neither the title nor the illustrations by...

After receiving Gill's advice, GE sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories. She then sent it to John Lane at...

This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

FAS later put up the manuscript of chapter one for auction in the marketplace at Talgarth when her goods were distrained because, as a suffragist, she refused to pay taxes without representation. The chapter, with...