Jonathan Cape

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB issued another novel, of which the English edition by Jonathan Cape was entitled A Family Romance.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton published with Jonathan Cape another novel, Folly's Handbook.
The Bodleian Library copy is date-stamped 15 June 1927.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1927): 324
Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM published with Cape a new novel, Heligoland, set in South London; its heroine, Rowena Snow, is part Indian, part Scottish.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Bryher
In 1925, Bryher published with Jonathan CapeA Picture Geography for Little Children, Part One: Asia.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
104
She had first developed a passion for the study of foreign cultures as a child, when she...
Textual Production H. D.
H. D. published with Jonathan Cape her third volume of original verse, Heliodora, and Other Poems.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Una Troubridge
The volume appeared as number four in Secker and Warburg 's Uniform Edition of Works by Colette.
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.
UT had met Colette for the first time on 19 October 1926, when she asked if she...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
WH 's third novel, The Land of Green Ginger, was published by Jonathan Cape .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
229
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
This fictionalises NM 's life at Carradale, including her dismissal from the Argyll County Council . She expresses her disillusionment with the Highlanders, and divides herself between two characters, a middle-aged woman doctor and...
Reception Mary Webb
MW 's friend Caradoc Evans (who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own...
Reception Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, pp. 66-7.
66
Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
Reception Jane Austen
Back in England in 2007, David Lassman (director of the Austen Festival in Bath and a would-be novelist with a pile of rejection slips) mounted an experiment, submitting the openings of Austen novels, blind, to...
Reception Radclyffe Hall
Sir William Joynson-Hicks , Home Secretary, wrote to order Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape to discontinue publication of RH 's The Well of Loneliness, calling it inherently obscene and gravely detrimental to the public interest.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
247
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Reception Radclyffe Hall
Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape 's offices, seizing both Cape and Pegasus Press editions of The Well.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
253
Reception Stevie Smith
Naomi Mitchison praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
153-4
Looking back in 1979 Mitchison characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.

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Texts

Brookner, Anita. Latecomers. Jonathan Cape, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Lewis Percy. Jonathan Cape, 1989.
Brookner, Anita. Look at Me. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Brookner, Anita. Providence. Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Brookner, Anita. Visitors. Jonathan Cape, 1997.
Bryher,. West. Jonathan Cape, 1925.
Carrington, Dora et al. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Couzyn, Jeni. Monkey’s Wedding. Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, 1948, pp. 11-16.
Duffy, Maureen. Capital. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
Dunn, Nell, and Adrian Henri. I Want. Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Dunn, Nell. Tear his Head off his Shoulders. Jonathan Cape, 1974.
Dunn, Nell. The Only Child. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Enright, Anne. Making Babies. Jonathan Cape, 2004.
Enright, Anne. The Forgotten Waltz. Jonathan Cape, 2011.
Enright, Anne. The Gathering. Jonathan Cape, 2007.
Enright, Anne. The Green Road. Jonathan Cape, 2015.
Enright, Anne. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Enright, Anne. The Wig My Father Wore. Jonathan Cape, 1995.
Enright, Anne. What Are You Like?. Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Garnett, David et al. “Preface”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 9-13.
H. D.,. Heliodora, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1924.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Master of the House. Jonathan Cape, 1932.