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...
Textual Production
Elspeth Huxley
Her mother had told her she could do better than Isak Dinesen
when Out of Africa first appeared in 1937. EH
's first draft was a novel called The Vertical Rays of the Sun...
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...
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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...
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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.
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EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
EH
published with Chatto and WindusFour Guineas, A Journey through West Africa, illustrated with photographs: a book in which she combined tourism with politics.
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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
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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.
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EH
's book on her daily life in the form of a diary,
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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
.
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She planned it in the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
