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
Catherine Carswell
Although Murry
had overseen serialisation of parts of The Savage Pilgrimage in a magazine under his editorship, he wrote to Chatto and Windus
within two weeks of the book's appearance to demand withdrawal of the...
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
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...
Publishing
Selima Hill
When she received Chatto's invitation, SH
had several hundred poems to choose from, lying hidden here and there around the house.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40.
40
Chatto
remained her publisher for two more volumes.
Publishing
Christina Fraser-Tytler
Still available in its first edition into the early twentieth century, according to the 1905 Chatto and Windus
catalogue, Mistress Judith was bound in cloth and sold for 3s. 6d, or in illustrated boards for...
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago, 2015.
Publishing
Valentine Ackland
In the American edition, published by Viking Press
in November 1933, the two authors' love poems are printed with no attributions, so that readers could not ascertain who wrote each individual poem.However, in the English...
Publishing
Catherine Carswell
The novel had been submitted to Duckworth
in the spring of 1918, but was rejected as too long (production costs had more than doubled as a result of the war). Chatto and Windus
offered a...
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.
qtd. in
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.