Chatto and Windus

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...

She translated The Cherry Orchard in 1906 (two years after its first appearance in Russian) and submitted the result to Incorporated Stage Society . For a long time she received no response, but on 28...

After long prodding from Jon's publisher, Norah Smallwood of Chatto and Windus , the two sisters followed this with Shiva's Pigeons: An Experience of India, 1972 (which deals with the period immediately after the...

In 1929 Random House of New York printed 475 copies of HD's single-sheet, four-page poem, Red Roses for Bronze—which was also the title of her collection (nearly 150 pages) published in London by Chatto and Windus

SH published her first poetry collection, Saying Hello at the Station, through Chatto , whose poetry editor, Andrew Motion , had himself approached her to ask for a volume.

When she received Chatto's invitation, SH had several hundred poems to choose from, lying hidden here and there around the house.Chatto remained her publisher for two more volumes.

SH published a slim volume of nine stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, with Chatto and Windus .

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...

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,...

In about 1935 EH began to plan a book purely about the Africans, which would be in large part an argument against the anti-colonial views of Margery Perham . She planned it in the...

Harold Macmillan argued that readers would find EH 's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...

She worked at this book during 1947, disturbed at the news that the US journalist Negley Farson was planning a rival book on the same subject. (When his Last Chance in Africa appeared in 1949...

The commission for this book from Chatto had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham on behalf of the Colonial Office for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and...

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...

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...