Chatto and Windus

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
89
SS resubmitted her poetry...
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 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
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 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 Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
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 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.
135-6
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Publishing Ella Hepworth Dixon
It had already been serialized in the Lady's Pictorial from 23 January to 30 April this year.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
89
Chatto and Windus offered EHD thirty-five pounds for the book, and wanted her to put her own...
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
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.
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...

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Texts

Croker, B. M. Mr Jervis. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Croker, B. M. Terence. Chatto and Windus, 1899.
Croker, B. M. The Cat’s Paw. Chatto and Windus, 1902.
Croker, B. M. To Let. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Croker, B. M. To Let. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Croker, B. M. Village Tales and Jungle Tragedies. Chatto and Windus, 1895.
Desai, Anita. Fasting, Feasting. Chatto and Windus, 1999.
Desai, Anita. The Artist of Disappearance. Chatto and Windus, 2011.
Desai, Anita. The Zigzag Way. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. My Flirtations. Chatto and Windus, 1892.
Drabble, Margaret. Safe as Houses. Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. A Daughter of Today. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. A Social Departure. Chatto and Windus, 1890.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. An American Girl in London. Chatto and Windus, 1891.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto and Windus, 1891.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette, and Hal Hurst. Vernon’s Aunt. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Dunn, Nell, editor. Grandmothers. Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
Empson, William. Milton’s God. Chatto and Windus, 1961, p. 280 pp.
Empson, William. Poems. Chatto and Windus, 1935, p. viii; 48 pp.
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. Chatto and Windus, 1930, p. 325 pp.
Empson, William. Some Versions of Pastoral. Chatto and Windus, 1935.
Empson, William. The Structure of Complex Words. Chatto and Windus, 1951.
Empson, William. Using Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Evans, Margiad. A Candle Ahead. Chatto and Windus, 1956.