William Heinemann

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...