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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Elspeth Huxley | EH
published through ChattoThe Prince Buys the Manor, an extravaganza of a satirical novel dedicated to Norah Smallwood
as silken spur, incisive counsellor, and warm-hearted friend. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 408 |
Dedications | Rosamond Lehmann | At the time she began the novel, RL
admitted that she had very little knowledge of contemporary women's writing other than May Sinclair
's. She dedicated this work to Dadie Rylands
, who had advised... |
Dedications | Amanda McKittrick Ros | Delina Delaney was published at AMKR
's expense. A reissue by Chatto and Windus
, 1935, was dedicated to John Coghlan
. |
Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In winter 1953 EJH
, aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus
, which was then run by Norah Smallwood
and Ian Parsons
. She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them... |
Employer | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
was a reader for the publishing firm of Chatto and Windus
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 44 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate Clanchy | KC
's second Arvon
course was taught by Simon Armitage
, who had recently become the poetry editor at Chatto and Windus
. Armitage offered KC
a chance to publish. This led to the appearance... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL
's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile. Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969. 82 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | During the previous fifteen years of its life it had earned an income of £814 per annum (an average which takes in the total of three pounds in 1924 and £2,442 in 1938, its most... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1958, the Day-Lewis affair having put an end to her Chatto and Windus
job, EJH
worked briefly as a fiction editor for Weidenfeld and Nicolson
. She gave up this job when her agent,... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | It was strongly influenced by the Mau Mau
struggle. Chatto and Windus
had their lawyer Michael Rubinstein
vet the script, and he advised bringing in Jomo Kenyatta
by name, so that he could not be... |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | SS
's Novel on Yellow Paper was published by Jonathan Cape
after rejection by Chatto and Windus
; she had written it, she said, in ten weeks. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Barbera, Jack and William McBrienEditors , Vintage, 1983. 253, 256-7 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1806 (12 September 1936): 717 Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago, 2015. |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | She prepared for this book with three months touring Australia as a semi-official visitor; she found her trip both rushed and expensive. There were apparently hopes in some quarters that her book would help to... |
Publishing | Willa Muir | Around 1952, WM
finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan
, Chatto and Windus
, and Hamish Hamilton
, but all three rejected it. While... |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency
rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988. 89 |