Chatto and Windus

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Virginia Woolf
During the previous fifteen years of its life it had earned an income of £814 per annum (an average which takes in the total of three pounds in 1924 and £2,442 in 1938, its most...
Textual Production John Strange Winter
The first short fiction collection of JSW (pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard), appeared: Cavalry Life; or, Sketches and Stories In Barracks and Out, published by Chatto and Windus .
Jerome, Jerome K., editor. My First Book. Chatto and Windus.
253-4
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production John Strange Winter
JSW 's second volume of army stories, Regimental Legends, was published by Chatto and Windus .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2885 (1883): 177
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
It was dedicated to Stone's wife, Janet. The first edition contained sixteen engravings and sixteen poems. Ruari McLean of The Monotype Corporation designed it as a specimen for a new typeface (Dante Roman and Italic)...
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
The collection was re-issued posthumously by Chatto and Windus as Twelve Poems in 1980, with a foreword by Sir Peter Pears .
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
283
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...
Publishing Marina Warner
The book, edited by Philip Terry and published in London by Chatto and Windus , brought together nineteen distinguished contributors from around the world, whose approaches to Ovid vary considerably.
Warner, Marina. “Leto’s Flight”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 160-82.
160-82
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.
34: 279
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
This was one of The Dolphin Books published by Chatto and Windus , a series including works by T. F. Powys (The Only Penitent) and Samuel Beckett (Proust).
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
280
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW received £542 in royalties that September from her American publisher, the Viking Press , but only half that amount from Chatto and Windus in England.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
85
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 277
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto and Windus requested her to take out a passage in which a fisherman declares his love for another man, but she scornfully refused to withdraw the passage and even altered it to make the...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Taylor
Friends said that ET was very shy, but cared very much for very few people.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
44
She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett (who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
For this novel she moved to Chatto and Windus following the suicide of Peter Davies .
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
348-9
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
This was re-issued by her new publisher, Chatto and Windus , in 1969. The title story was adapted for televising in November that year.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
382
Textual Features Elizabeth Taylor
As a study of old age this is unique among ET 's writing, but it shares her distinctive blend of tough-mindedness with sensitive feeling. Her heroine, the widowed Mrs Palfrey, feels she grew up in...

Timeline

1873: After John Camden Hotten's death, his publications...

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1873

After John Camden Hotten 's death, his publications manager Andrew Chatto bought the firm, and in partnership with poet W. E. Windus formed Chatto and Windus .

1876: John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and...

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1876

John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and Windus , ending Mary Elizabeth Braddon 's association with the monthly.

1895: Chatto and Windus published The Professor's...

Women writers item

1895

Chatto and Windus published The Professor's Experiment, a novel by Margaret Hungerford (who was near the end of her life but not yet slackening in productivity).

1908: Chatto and Windus of London began publication...

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1908

Chatto and Windus of London began publication of series of books for which they commissioned Herbert P. Horne to develop the Florence typeface.

1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...

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1926

Soon after Chatto and Windus published The Cantab by Shane Leslie , the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church , and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce 's...

Texts

Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
Ackland, Valentine. The Nature of the Moment. Chatto and Windus, 1973.
Allingham, Margery, and Philip Youngman Carter. Cargo of Eagles. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Allingham, Margery. Hide My Eyes. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Allingham, Margery. The Beckoning Lady. Chatto and Windus, 1955.
Allingham, Margery. The China Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Allingham, Margery. The Mysterious Mr. Campion. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Allingham, Margery. The Tiger in the Smoke. Chatto and Windus, 1952.
Athill, Diana. Don’t Look at Me Like That. Chatto and Windus, 1967.
Athill, Diana. Instead of a Letter. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Austen, Jane, and G. K. Chesterton. Love & Freindship. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Bannerman, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. Chatto and Windus, 1957.
Barr, Robert, editor. The Idler. Chatto and Windus.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. Chatto and Windus, 1934.
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Chatto and Windus, 1974.
Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the Five Towns. Chatto and Windus, 1902.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Jerningham, Edward. “Editorial Commentary”. Edward Jerningham and His Friends, edited by Lewis Bettany, Chatto and Windus, 1919, p. Various pages.
Bishop, Elizabeth, and Tom Paulin. Complete Poems. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Blind, Mathilde. Birds of Passage. Chatto and Windus, 1895.
Blind, Mathilde. Birds of Passage. Chatto and Windus, 1896.
Blind, Mathilde, and Ford Madox Brown. Dramas in Miniature. Chatto and Windus, 1891.
Blind, Mathilde. Songs and Sonnets. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Blind, Mathilde. The Ascent of Man. Chatto and Windus, 1889.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.