Victor Gollancz

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Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
With this book ICB 's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz was to reprint her earlier titles.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Its American publication, by Knopf , preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
This was followed in later 1955 by Ten Fascinating Women (whose title, again, EJ hated but whose text she very much enjoyed writing). She did not think highly of Sampson Low as a publisher, but...
Publishing George Orwell
GO published with Frederick Warburg (Gollancz having refused to take it) Homage to Catalonia, his book about the Spanish Civil War..
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Publishing Beatrice Webb
This was their last major work. In the original year of publication a separate, limited edition was printed for the subscribing members of the National Association of Local Government Officials . A second edition published...
Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
In the early 1960s ICB had a disastrous lunch with her publisher, Victor Gollancz . (It was only the second time she had met him in person.) She asked him to put out a collected...
Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ had been interested in Queen Elizabeth since, when she was twelve, her father stood her just over half the cost of Mandell Creighton 's book about the queen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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She was first commissioned for...
Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
Publishing Lettice Cooper
Lettice Cooper published National Provincial, an industrial novel that subsequently became one of her three texts reissued in 1968 to meet, said Gollancz , popular demand.
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Publishing George Orwell
GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Phyllis Bentley
PB was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn 's then managing director, Victor Gollancz
Publishing George Orwell
He published the book with Gollancz after it was rejected by Cape and Faber . He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.
Publishing Una Marson
UM started writing an autobiography, then entitled Autobiography of a Black Girl, by the age of twenty-five.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz
Publishing George Orwell
Victor Gollancz had rejected it for fear of libel actions, since its use of actual people and events was unmistakable.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Betty Miller
BM published Farewell Leicester Square with Robert Hall six years after Victor Gollancz (until then her chosen publisher) had turned it down on account of its sensitive subject-matter.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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