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February 22, 2024

William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann. Their first published book, 1890's The Bondman, was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company. He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling. Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday, having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States. Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over. Doubleday sold his interest in 1933.

Heinemann
Founded1890; 134 years ago (1890)
SuccessorPearson Education (UK education)
Penguin Random House (UK trade)
Macmillan Education (ELT)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US education)
HarperCollins (UK children's)
Capstone Publishers (school libraries)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters location
Official website
  • www.heinemann.com

Through the 1920s, the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials. Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore, Max Beerbohm and Henry James, among others. This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J. B. Priestley and Vita Sackville-West. Throughout, the company was also known for its classics and international catalogue, and in the post-WWII era, the company focused on educational materials.

Through the 1950s, the company was slowly taken over by Tilling Group's investment arm. In 1953 they opened offices in The Hague for sales in continental Europe, and in 1978 they opened a separate company in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to sell their educational works in the US market. When Tilling was purchased by BTR plc in 1983, BTR sold off all their non-industrial assets; Heinemann was sold to Octopus Publishing Group. Octopus merged with Reed International in 1987, who then sold their entire trade-oriented publishing assets to Random House in 1997. Heinemann ELT (English Language Teaching) division was sold to Macmillan Education in 1998.[1] Eventually, the rest of international division was sold to Pearson Education and the US division to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2007. Most of these successors (with exception of Macmillan Education) continue to use the imprint.

History edit

William Heinemann began working in the publishing industry under Nicolas Trübner,[2] who was a major publisher of what was called Oriental scholarship.[3] When, two years after Trübner's death, his company was taken over by the firm of Kegan Paul, Heinemann left and founded William Heinemann Ltd in Covent Garden, London, in 1890.[2] The first title published was Hall Caine's The Bondman, which was a "stunning success", selling more than 450,000 copies.[4] The company also released a number of works translated into English under the branding of "Heinemann's International Library", edited by Edmund Gosse.[5] In 1893, Sydney Pawling became a partner.[6][7] They became known for publishing the works of Sarah Grand.[8] The company published the British version of Scribners' Great Educators series under the title Heinemann's Great Educators series, but did not include credits for the original American editor, Nicholas Murray Butler,[9] an omission for which they were criticized.[8]

Between 1895 and 1897, Heinemann was the publisher of William Ernest Henley's periodical New Review.[10] In the late 1890s, Heinemann and the American publisher Frank Doubleday financially supported Joseph Conrad during his initial attempt at writing what eventually became The Rescue, and Heinemann was the British publisher for Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' in 1897.[7] One of the company's businesses at that time was to sell English books to a Japan that was beginning to be interested in items of Western culture. Heinemann sold to the Japanese bookstore Maruzen translations of the works of Dostoyevsky and 5000 copies of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin.[11] In 1912, the company began publishing the Loeb Classical Library series, publications of ancient works with the Greek or Latin text on the left-hand page, and a literal translation on the right hand page.[12] The series has been called "the most significant" of the parallel-text translations.[12] Since 1934, it has been co-published with Harvard University.[12][13]

On Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday,[6] with Theodore Byard, who had previously been a professional singer, joining to lead the offices.[6]

A subsidiary company was established in The Hague in 1953; originally intended to distribute works in English to continental Europe, it eventually began to directly print Heinemann's books as well.[4]

The company was later acquired by conglomerate Thomas Tilling in 1961. When the impending takeover became known, Graham Greene (who had been with Heinemann since his first work in 1929)[14] led a number of Heinemann authors who protested by taking their works to other publishers, including The Bodley Head, of which Greene was a director.[14][15]

BTR bought Thomas Tilling in 1983, and were not interested in its publishing division, so Heinemann was put on the block. Heinemann was purchased by the Octopus Publishing Group in 1985, and shortly afterwards sold the sprawling Heinemann HQ in rural Kingswood, Surrey for development; Octopus was purchased by Reed International (now Reed Elsevier) in 1987. Heinemann Professional Publishing was merged with Butterworths Scientific in 1990 to form Butterworth-Heinemann.[16] Random House bought Heinemann's trade publishing (now named William Heinemann) in 1997. Egmont Group bought Heinemann's children's publishing and Macmillan Education bought Heinemann ELT in 1998.[17][1] Remaining Heinemann's educational unit became part of Harcourt Education when Reed Elsevier purchased the company in 2001. Pearson purchased the UK, South African, Australian and New Zealand arms of Harcourt Education in May 2007, while Houghton Mifflin purchased the American operations a few months later. Pearson sold the school library publisher Heinemann-Raintree to Capstone Publishers in 2008.[18] Egmont Group sold its UK book division to HarperCollins in 2020.[19]

In 1957, Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) created the African Writers Series, spearheaded by Alan Hill and West Africa specialist Van Milne, to focus on publishing the writers of Africa such as Chinua Achebe, who was the first advisory editor of the series. Heinemann was awarded the 1992 Worldaware Award for Social Progress.[20] The series was relaunched by Pearson in 2011.[21][22]

Inspired by the African Writers Series, Leon Comber launched the Writing in Asia Series in 1966 from Singapore. Two Austin Coates books in the series, Myself a Mandarin and City of Broken Promises, became bestsellers, but the series, after publishing more than 70 titles, was to fold in 1984 when Heinemann Asia was taken over by a parent group of publishers.[23]

In 1970, the Caribbean Writers Series—modelled on the African Writers Series—was launched by James Currey and others at HEB to republish work by major Caribbean writers.[24][25]

References edit

  1. ^ a b The Macmillan Story (PDF). Macmillan Publishers. 2017. p. 35.
  2. ^ a b The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. 1895. pp. 49–.
  3. ^ Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record. Trübner & Company. 1884. pp. 48–.
  4. ^ a b Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan (2009-04-06). A Companion to the History of the Book. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 343–. ISBN 9781405192781. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  5. ^ Mosse, Werner Eugen; Carlebach, Julius (1991). Second Chance: two centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 196–. ISBN 9783161457418. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Kipling, Rudyard (1990). The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1920-30. University of Iowa Press. pp. 43–. ISBN 9780877458982. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  7. ^ a b Ray, Martin (2007). Joseph Conrad: Memories and Impressions - An Annotated Bibliography. Rodopi. pp. 37–. ISBN 9789042022980. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  8. ^ a b The Bookman. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1895. pp. 214–.
  9. ^ Thomas Davidson, Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, title page. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. ^ Wertheim, Stanley (1997). A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 151–. ISBN 9780313296925. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  11. ^ Checkland, Olive (2003). Japan and Britain After 1859: Creating Cultural Bridges. Psychology Press. pp. 67–. ISBN 9780700717477. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  12. ^ a b c France, Peter (2001-12-13). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. pp. 503–. ISBN 9780199247844. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  13. ^ Hall, Max (1986). Harvard University Press: A History. Harvard University Press. pp. 64–. ISBN 9780674380806. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  14. ^ a b West, W. J. (2002-08-01). The Quest for Graham Greene. Macmillan. pp. 182–. ISBN 9780312314781. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  15. ^ Greene, Richard (2011-04-20). Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. Random House Digital, Inc. pp. 330–. ISBN 9780307369369. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  16. ^ Medlik, S. (2016-06-06). "Publisher's note". Managing Tourism. Elsevier. ISBN 978-1-4831-0372-3.
  17. ^ "PW: Egmont Buys Reed Children's Books".
  18. ^ https://www.raintree.co.uk/about-us/
  19. ^ Milliot, Jim. "HC to Buy Egmont Book Groups in the U.K. Poland, and Germany". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  20. ^ "Worldaware Business Awards 1992 - Williamson Tea Award for Social Progress". Worldaware.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  21. ^ "Pearson revives African Writers Series, calls for submissions" 2016-09-21 at the Wayback Machine, Naija Stories, 4 August 2011.
  22. ^ Nicholas Norbrook, "Publishing Africa Writers Series celebrates 50 years", The Africa Report, 29 February 2012.
  23. ^ Comber, Leon (1991). Asian Voices in English. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 79–86. ISBN 9622092829. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  24. ^ "Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series" 2020-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Index.
  25. ^ Caribbean Writers Series 2020-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, Heinemann.

Further reading edit

  • John St John, William Heinemann: A Century of Publishing, 1890-1990, London: Heinemann, 1990.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Heinemann (publisher).
  • Official website (UK education)
  • Official website (US)
  • Official website (children's)
  • Charles Pick (Heinemann Group Managing Director, 1979-1985) Archive, University of East Anglia

February 22, 2024
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William Heinemann Ltd with the imprint Heinemann was a London based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann Their first published book 1890 s The Bondman was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over Doubleday sold his interest in 1933 HeinemannFounded1890 134 years ago 1890 SuccessorPearson Education UK education Penguin Random House UK trade Macmillan Education ELT Houghton Mifflin Harcourt US education HarperCollins UK children s Capstone Publishers school libraries Country of originUnited KingdomHeadquarters locationPortsmouth New Hampshire US Official websitewww wbr heinemann wbr comThrough the 1920s the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials Among these were works by H G Wells Rudyard Kipling W Somerset Maugham George Moore Max Beerbohm and Henry James among others This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company including Graham Greene Edward Upward J B Priestley and Vita Sackville West Throughout the company was also known for its classics and international catalogue and in the post WWII era the company focused on educational materials Through the 1950s the company was slowly taken over by Tilling Group s investment arm In 1953 they opened offices in The Hague for sales in continental Europe and in 1978 they opened a separate company in Portsmouth New Hampshire to sell their educational works in the US market When Tilling was purchased by BTR plc in 1983 BTR sold off all their non industrial assets Heinemann was sold to Octopus Publishing Group Octopus merged with Reed International in 1987 who then sold their entire trade oriented publishing assets to Random House in 1997 Heinemann ELT English Language Teaching division was sold to Macmillan Education in 1998 1 Eventually the rest of international division was sold to Pearson Education and the US division to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2007 Most of these successors with exception of Macmillan Education continue to use the imprint Contents 1 History 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksHistory editWilliam Heinemann began working in the publishing industry under Nicolas Trubner 2 who was a major publisher of what was called Oriental scholarship 3 When two years after Trubner s death his company was taken over by the firm of Kegan Paul Heinemann left and founded William Heinemann Ltd in Covent Garden London in 1890 2 The first title published was Hall Caine s The Bondman which was a stunning success selling more than 450 000 copies 4 The company also released a number of works translated into English under the branding of Heinemann s International Library edited by Edmund Gosse 5 In 1893 Sydney Pawling became a partner 6 7 They became known for publishing the works of Sarah Grand 8 The company published the British version of Scribners Great Educators series under the title Heinemann s Great Educators series but did not include credits for the original American editor Nicholas Murray Butler 9 an omission for which they were criticized 8 Between 1895 and 1897 Heinemann was the publisher of William Ernest Henley s periodical New Review 10 In the late 1890s Heinemann and the American publisher Frank Doubleday financially supported Joseph Conrad during his initial attempt at writing what eventually became The Rescue and Heinemann was the British publisher for Conrad s The Nigger of the Narcissus in 1897 7 One of the company s businesses at that time was to sell English books to a Japan that was beginning to be interested in items of Western culture Heinemann sold to the Japanese bookstore Maruzen translations of the works of Dostoyevsky and 5000 copies of Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin 11 In 1912 the company began publishing the Loeb Classical Library series publications of ancient works with the Greek or Latin text on the left hand page and a literal translation on the right hand page 12 The series has been called the most significant of the parallel text translations 12 Since 1934 it has been co published with Harvard University 12 13 On Heinemann s death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U S publisher Doubleday 6 with Theodore Byard who had previously been a professional singer joining to lead the offices 6 A subsidiary company was established in The Hague in 1953 originally intended to distribute works in English to continental Europe it eventually began to directly print Heinemann s books as well 4 The company was later acquired by conglomerate Thomas Tilling in 1961 When the impending takeover became known Graham Greene who had been with Heinemann since his first work in 1929 14 led a number of Heinemann authors who protested by taking their works to other publishers including The Bodley Head of which Greene was a director 14 15 BTR bought Thomas Tilling in 1983 and were not interested in its publishing division so Heinemann was put on the block Heinemann was purchased by the Octopus Publishing Group in 1985 and shortly afterwards sold the sprawling Heinemann HQ in rural Kingswood Surrey for development Octopus was purchased by Reed International now Reed Elsevier in 1987 Heinemann Professional Publishing was merged with Butterworths Scientific in 1990 to form Butterworth Heinemann 16 Random House bought Heinemann s trade publishing now named William Heinemann in 1997 Egmont Group bought Heinemann s children s publishing and Macmillan Education bought Heinemann ELT in 1998 17 1 Remaining Heinemann s educational unit became part of Harcourt Education when Reed Elsevier purchased the company in 2001 Pearson purchased the UK South African Australian and New Zealand arms of Harcourt Education in May 2007 while Houghton Mifflin purchased the American operations a few months later Pearson sold the school library publisher Heinemann Raintree to Capstone Publishers in 2008 18 Egmont Group sold its UK book division to HarperCollins in 2020 19 In 1957 Heinemann Educational Books HEB created the African Writers Series spearheaded by Alan Hill and West Africa specialist Van Milne to focus on publishing the writers of Africa such as Chinua Achebe who was the first advisory editor of the series Heinemann was awarded the 1992 Worldaware Award for Social Progress 20 The series was relaunched by Pearson in 2011 21 22 Inspired by the African Writers Series Leon Comber launched the Writing in Asia Series in 1966 from Singapore Two Austin Coates books in the series Myself a Mandarin and City of Broken Promises became bestsellers but the series after publishing more than 70 titles was to fold in 1984 when Heinemann Asia was taken over by a parent group of publishers 23 In 1970 the Caribbean Writers Series modelled on the African Writers Series was launched by James Currey and others at HEB to republish work by major Caribbean writers 24 25 References edit a b The Macmillan Story PDF Macmillan Publishers 2017 p 35 a b The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record of British and Foreign Literature Sampson Low Marston amp Company 1895 pp 49 Trubner s American and Oriental Literary Record Trubner amp Company 1884 pp 48 a b Eliot Simon Rose Jonathan 2009 04 06 A Companion to the History of the Book John Wiley amp Sons pp 343 ISBN 9781405192781 Retrieved 1 January 2013 Mosse Werner Eugen Carlebach Julius 1991 Second Chance two centuries of German speaking Jews in the United Kingdom Mohr Siebeck pp 196 ISBN 9783161457418 Retrieved 1 January 2013 a b c Kipling Rudyard 1990 The Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1920 30 University of Iowa Press pp 43 ISBN 9780877458982 Retrieved 1 January 2013 a b Ray Martin 2007 Joseph Conrad Memories and Impressions An Annotated Bibliography Rodopi pp 37 ISBN 9789042022980 Retrieved 1 January 2013 a b The Bookman Dodd Mead and Company 1895 pp 214 Thomas Davidson Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals New York Charles Scribner s Sons 1892 title page Retrieved 8 February 2024 Wertheim Stanley 1997 A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia Greenwood Publishing Group pp 151 ISBN 9780313296925 Retrieved 1 January 2013 Checkland Olive 2003 Japan and Britain After 1859 Creating Cultural Bridges Psychology Press pp 67 ISBN 9780700717477 Retrieved 1 January 2013 a b c France Peter 2001 12 13 The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation Oxford University Press pp 503 ISBN 9780199247844 Retrieved 1 January 2013 Hall Max 1986 Harvard University Press A History Harvard University Press pp 64 ISBN 9780674380806 Retrieved 1 January 2013 a b West W J 2002 08 01 The Quest for Graham Greene Macmillan pp 182 ISBN 9780312314781 Retrieved 1 January 2013 Greene Richard 2011 04 20 Graham Greene A Life in Letters Random House Digital Inc pp 330 ISBN 9780307369369 Retrieved 1 January 2013 Medlik S 2016 06 06 Publisher s note Managing Tourism Elsevier ISBN 978 1 4831 0372 3 PW Egmont Buys Reed Children s Books https www raintree co uk about us Milliot Jim HC to Buy Egmont Book Groups in the U K Poland and Germany Publishers Weekly Retrieved 2023 12 22 Worldaware Business Awards 1992 Williamson Tea Award for Social Progress Worldaware org uk Retrieved 2013 08 28 Pearson revives African Writers Series calls for submissions Archived 2016 09 21 at the Wayback Machine Naija Stories 4 August 2011 Nicholas Norbrook Publishing Africa Writers Series celebrates 50 years The Africa Report 29 February 2012 Comber Leon 1991 Asian Voices in English Hong Kong University Press pp 79 86 ISBN 9622092829 Retrieved 10 April 2016 Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series Archived 2020 03 05 at the Wayback Machine Oxford Index Caribbean Writers Series Archived 2020 08 01 at the Wayback Machine Heinemann Further reading editJohn St John William Heinemann A Century of Publishing 1890 1990 London Heinemann 1990 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Heinemann publisher Official website UK education Official website US Official website children s Charles Pick Heinemann Group Managing Director 1979 1985 Archive University of East Anglia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Heinemann publisher amp oldid 1204909802, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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