Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
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Dedications | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
dedicated to the memory of William Heinemann her scholarly work on crime, entitled Murder & Its Motives. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 138 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 51, 77, 187 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | 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 |
Literary responses | 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... |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | 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... |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 96 |
Other Life Event | Ella Hepworth Dixon | 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... |
politics | Flora Annie Steel | 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... |
Publishing | Flora Annie Steel | 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... |
Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | 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. 240 |
Publishing | Ada Cambridge | AC
's association with the publisher William Heinemann
of London began with the publication of A Marked Man. Although she published with several other companies, Heinemann
remained her primary publisher from this time. Cambridge, Ada, and Elizabeth Morrison. A Woman’s Friendship. New South Wales University Press, 1988. xvi, xxiv |
Publishing | 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, 2003, pp. 9-39. 35 |
Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like... |
Publishing | Willa Cather | The title comes from that of a French pastoral painting by Jules Breton
, which Cather bought for her brother Roscoe in 1908. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989. 90 Cather, Willa. “A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather”. The Willa Cather Archive, edited by Andrew Jewell et al. to Roscoe Cather, 2 March 1908 |
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