Chatto and Windus

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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.
89
SS resubmitted her poetry...
Publishing Margery Allingham
MA published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus , which had succeeded to Heinemann as her English publisher.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
248, 171
Publishing Catherine Carswell
The Hodder and Stoughton reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC replied defiantly...
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 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 Catherine Carswell
She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
113
She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...
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 Elspeth Huxley
EH 's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus after Macmillan refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
135-6
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
The poems were sent to Chatto and Windus by her friend David Garnett .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 279
Publishing Anne Sexton
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy of OUP had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH published with Chatto and WindusFour Guineas, A Journey through West Africa, illustrated with photographs: a book in which she combined tourism with politics.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
239
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 235
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
It had illustrations by Delia Delderfield .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
EH did herself harm in business terms by declining to sign a contract after Norah Smallwood expressed enthusiasm about a six-month sample, covering April to October 1974. She...
Publishing Iris Murdoch
It was dedicated to Rosemary Cramp , who had been IM 's student and later her colleague. Later this year it was suggested that IM 's publisher, Chatto , ought to have edited her work...
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

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Texts

Gardam, Jane. The Man in the Wooden Hat. Chatto and Windus, 2009.
Gardam, Jane. The People on Privilege Hill. Chatto and Windus, 2007.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. The Plays of Tchehov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Chatto and Windus, 1923, 2 vols.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, and Edward Garnett. The Tales of Tchehov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Chatto and Windus, 1922, 13 vols.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. 7-11.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Godden, Jon et al. Shiva’s Pigeons. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
Hays, Frances. Women of the Day. Chatto and Windus, 1885.
Hill, Selima. My Darling Camel. Chatto and Windus, 1988.
Hill, Selima. Saying Hello at the Station. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Hill, Selima. The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
Hill, Susan, editor. People: Essays & Poems. Chatto and Windus, 1983.
Hill, Susan. The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read. Chatto and Windus, 2003.
Hill, Susan. The Service of Clouds. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Hill, Susan. The Various Haunts of Men. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Hopkinson, Lyndall Passerini. Nothing to Forgive. Chatto and Windus, 1988.
Howe, Bea, and Valentine Ackland. “Foreword”. For Sylvia: An Honest Account, Chatto and Windus, 1985, pp. 5-24.
Hunt, Margaret, 1831 - 1912 et al. The Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1912.
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. The Desirable Alien. Chatto and Windus, 1913.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay. Chatto and Windus, 1923.