EH
published through ChattoThe Prince Buys the Manor, an extravaganza of a satirical novel dedicated to Norah Smallwood
as silken spur, incisive counsellor, and warm-hearted friend.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Dedications
Rosamond Lehmann
At the time she began the novel, RL
admitted that she had very little knowledge of contemporary women's writing other than May Sinclair
's. She dedicated this work to Dadie Rylands
, who had advised...
Employer
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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...
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.
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She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett
(who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Kate Clanchy
KC
's second Arvon
course was taught by Simon Armitage
, who had recently become the poetry editor at Chatto and Windus
. Armitage offered KC
a chance to publish. This led to the appearance...
Literary responses
Rosamond Lehmann
Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL
's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile.
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown.
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However, the poet Alfred Noyes
(a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...
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...
Occupation
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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,...
For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins
, who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond
of Chatto and Windus
Publishing
Rumer Godden
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...
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
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...
Timeline
1873: After John Camden Hotten's death, his publications...
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...
Writing climate item
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...