Chatto and Windus

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...

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...

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.SS resubmitted her poetry...

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,...

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

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...

The preface by J. M. Barrie was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie. Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...

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...

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...

The review in British Book News noted the psychological depth of this novel was unusual for MA , but not wholly new, in that she had already experimented with this kind of exploration in The...

Although Murry had overseen serialisation of parts of The Savage Pilgrimage in a magazine under his editorship, he wrote to Chatto and Windus within two weeks of the book's appearance to demand withdrawal of the...

CC 's lost earnings must have amounted to a much larger sum. She stood by what she had written as the truth, known to Lawrence's family and friends, and was angry with Chatto and Windus

British Book News approved what it saw as IM 's abandonment of the deliberately eccentric and inconsequential approach of the earlier novels [for] a straightforward tale of the conflict between love and conventional social obligations...

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...

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...