British Library Catalogue.
Victor Gollancz
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Naomi Royde-Smith | It was reprinted the same year by its publisher, Gollancz
, in an omnibus volume entitled Famous Novels of 1931, which also included works by L. A. G. Strong
, Helen Ashton
, and Francis Iles
. |
Anthologization | Teresa Deevy | Katie Roche was written and performed while the new Irish Constitution was being drafted. The Constitution proclaimed that a woman can best support the state and the common good by her life within the home... |
Anthologization | Teresa Deevy | Katie Roche reached print (along with Dodie Smith
's Call It a Day) in Famous Plays of 1935-6, issued in 1936 by Victor Gollancz
. In 1939 came her own Three Plays... |
Literary responses | Betty Miller | Again St John Ervine
offered an exacting critique. Words intoxicate you . . . other women get decently drunk on gin but you must have lexicons and lexicons before you will consent to fall on... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Doreen Wallace | DW
, in the midst of her own and her husband
's personal and practical struggle with the Tithe Laws, published with Victor Gollancz
a controlled but furious polemic entitled The Tithe War. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1682 (26 April 1934): 302 Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz, 1934. 3-8 Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 62 |
Performance of text | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | |
Publishing | Nadine Gordimer | NG
's novel A Guest of Honour appeared from Viking Press
in New York. The London edition followed next year from Cape
, who now succeeded to Gollancz
as Gordimer's English publisher. “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
's final novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Busman's Honeymoon, was published first in the USA by Harcourt Brace
; its UK publication, by Gollancz
, followed in June this year. Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978. 84-5 |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | She wrote it in secret and in autumn 1924 took her manuscript to the vanity publisher Heath Cranton
. She paid to print it. Her publisher deducted twenty percent, and she earned the balance of... |
Publishing | Gwen Moffat | GM
changed her publisher from Hodder and Stoughton
to Gollancz
for Survival Count, subtitled a personal journey towards conservation. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. OCLC WorldCat. |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
published another novel, which was entitled Honey since her publisher, Gollancz
, thought her choice of Venus and Adonis would not be understood by the general public. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 3472 (12 September 1968): 979 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1973 Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 147-8 |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | The play was published that year by Victor Gollancz
in London and by Little, Brown
in Boston. Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown, 1934. prelims Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan, 1988. 93 |
Timeline
1927
Victor Gollancz
established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
December 1927
Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan
died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz
. It became an immediate best-seller...
Early 1957
John Braine
's novelRoom at the Top was published by Gollancz
after eight rejections, on the advice of Elizabeth Jenkins
in her capacity as publisher's reader.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
(1 March 1957): 125
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
107-8
8 February 1967