William Heinemann

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.

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...

This book too dated back to 1911, when WC produced two stories, Alexandra and The Bohemian Girl, which eventually became part of it. She now wrote, she later said, entirely for myself, and...

The title comes from that of a French pastoral painting by Jules Breton , which Cather bought for her brother Roscoe in 1908. She later removed the romantic...

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.Murray 's suggestion that...

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...

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...