Chatto and Windus

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Reception Catherine Carswell
CC 's lost earnings must have amounted to a much larger sum. She stood by what she had written as the truth, known to Lawrence's family and friends, and was angry with Chatto and Windus
Reception Iris Murdoch
British Book News approved what it saw as IM 's abandonment of the deliberately eccentric and inconsequential approach of the earlier novels [for] a straightforward tale of the conflict between love and conventional social obligations...
Reception Elspeth Huxley
A detail of this book got EH into trouble. She wrote in the context of a tea-party given by Dr J. B. Danquah about pots calling kettles black, and he objected that this suggested...
Reception Margery Allingham
The review in British Book News noted the psychological depth of this novel was unusual for MA , but not wholly new, in that she had already experimented with this kind of exploration in The...
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. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
253, 256-7
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1806 (12 September 1936): 717
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago.
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 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.
89
SS resubmitted her poetry...
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 Iris Murdoch
She finished her second draft on 28 March 1953, convinced at this point that it was romantic, sentimental, and bad, and gave it to Elias Canetti to read. It was submitted to two successive publishers,...
Publishing Catherine Carswell
A somewhat revised edition of the book (in which CC felt she made her case against Murry stronger) was published later the same year in New York by Harcourt Brace and in London by Martin Secker
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...
Publishing Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
Publishing Aldous Huxley
Though AH had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before...
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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Texts

Byatt, A. S. Passions of the Mind. Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Byatt, A. S. Possession. Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Byatt, A. S. Shadow of a Sun. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Byatt, A. S. Still Life. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
Byatt, A. S. Sugar and Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1987.
Byatt, A. S. The Biographer’s Tale. Chatto and Windus, 2000.
Byatt, A. S. The Children’s Book. Chatto and Windus, 2009.
Byatt, A. S. The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
Byatt, A. S. The Game. Chatto and Windus, 1967.
Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
Byatt, A. S. The Virgin in the Garden. Chatto and Windus, 1978.
Carswell, Catherine. The Camomile: An Invention. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Carswell, Catherine. The Life of Robert Burns. Chatto and Windus, 1930.
Carswell, Catherine. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Carter, Angela. Expletives Deleted. Chatto and Windus, 1992.
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. Chatto and Windus, 1997.
Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Chisholm, Kate. Wits and Wives. Dr Johnson in the Company of Women. Chatto and Windus, 2011.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Collins, Wilkie et al. Blind Love. Chatto and Windus, 1890.
Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1883.
Collins, Wilkie. The Evil Genius. Chatto and Windus, 1886.
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady. Chatto and Windus, 1875.
Croker, B. M. Infatuation. Chatto and Windus, 1899.