Chatto and Windus

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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
427
After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...
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...
Dedications Elspeth Huxley
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.
408
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH 's book on her daily life in the form of a diary,
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
391
titled (from a remark of seventeenth-century local historian John Aubrey ) Gallipot Eyes, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson after...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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 .
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
124
She planned it in the...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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...
Reception Elspeth Huxley
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...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
She said that she felt the circumstances of life in 1949, with postwar shortages refusing to go away, called desperately for some attempt at humour.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
209
Chatto offered this book to film companies in England...
Textual Features Elspeth Huxley
It deals with several political murders: that of a white couple by trusted Africans in their employ, that of a loyalist African chief. One of the chief's sons is a District Officer, which puts him...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
A New York edition appeared the next year, and another in 1882. Chatto and Windus re-issued The Dark Colleen in 1878 and 1896.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Employer Elizabeth Jennings
EJ was a reader for the publishing firm of Chatto and Windus .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.

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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.