William Heinemann

Her agent J. B. Pinker sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who agreed to publish it on the condition that Hunt should change its ending: she would not find an audience, he insisted, for...

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...

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...

William Heinemann had read FTJ 's stories in the English Review, and asked her to meet him to discuss a book publication. They became good friends, dining once a week when she was in...

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...

She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke. It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...

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...

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...

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...

SG 's essays and articles for journals were largely written for a middle-class, female audience. She began writing them for the income they provided: in a letter to William Heinemann on 16 September 1893 she...

During a later doldrums period in her novel-writing, FAS turned to non-fiction with an illustrated book about animals (particularly her dachshund, Angelo) entitled A Book of Mortals, 1905, published as A Fellow Mortal...