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.
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.
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...