To produce this work RM
conducted extensive research in both London and Lisbon (which she visited in 1943, able to go because it was a neutral country, but dogged by illness while she was there)...
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
Again Jonathan Cape
made her alter two or three words.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
172
Publishing
Stevie Smith
SS
's Novel on Yellow Paper was published by Jonathan Cape
after rejection by Chatto and Windus
; she had written it, she said, in ten weeks.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago.
Publishing
E. H. Young
EHY
changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape
for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin
imprint.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape
(who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall
's...
A revised edition was published by Jonathan Cape
in 1928 under the title Lest Ye Die.
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.
Publishing
Shena Mackay
SM
's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press
after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape
.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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.
Hamilton, Ian. “Bohemian Rhapsodist”. The Guardian, pp. Saturday Review 6 - 7.
7
Publishing
E. H. Young
The following year Cape
produced a collected edition of EHY
's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press
in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud...
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.
41
“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
Stevie Smith
Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice,
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
Before Babies in Rhinestones appeared, SM
completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel. She submitted this, her first novel for over a...
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
Barbara Pym
After years of rejections, BP
succeeded in publishing her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape
.
The title has been said to be borrowed from Victorian author Thomas Haynes Bayly
, who...
Publishing
Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he...
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Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Lilian Baylis. The Old Vic. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Folly’s Handbook. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
Holtby, Winifred. Poor Caroline. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Holtby, Winifred. The Land of Green Ginger. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Housman, A. E. More Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. After Julius. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Mr Wrong. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Beautiful Visit. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Long View. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Sea Change. Jonathan Cape, 1959.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, and Robert Aickman. We Are for the Dark. Jonathan Cape, 1951.
Innes, Kathleen E. The Bible as Literature. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Jones, Robert, and Oliver Marriott. Anatomy of a Merger: A History of G.E.C., A.E.I. and English Electric. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Kavan, Anna. Asylum Piece, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Lessing, Doris. Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Lessing, Doris. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Lessing, Doris. Shikasta. Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Lessing, Doris. The Fifth Child. Jonathan Cape, 1988.
Lessing, Doris. The Good Terrorist. Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Lessing, Doris. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Jonathan Cape, 1982.