Jonathan Cape

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Publishing Elizabeth Bowen
The novel was published by Gollancz , which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz , who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel...
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 Rose Macaulay
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.
253, 256-7
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1806 (12 September 1936): 717
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago.
Publishing Cicely Hamilton
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 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...
Publishing Stevie Smith
SS published her third novel, The Holiday, with Chapman and Hall , after Jonathan Cape rejected it.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
290, 284-5
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2473 (24 June 1949): 414
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 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 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.
114
appeared on 11 January 1936. A reader for Jonathan Cape , Hamish Miles ...
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 Shena Mackay
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 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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Texts

Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women. Jonathan Cape, 1952.
Pym, Barbara. Jane and Prudence. Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Pym, Barbara. Less Than Angels. Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Pym, Barbara. No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Rhys, Jean. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie. Jonathan Cape.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Anarchism Is Not Enough. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Contemporaries and Snobs. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Experts Are Puzzled. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Poems: A Joking Word. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Robertson, E. Arnot. ’Cullum.’. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Devices and Desires. Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Four Frightened People. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Ordinary Families. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Summer’s Lease. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Signpost. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Three Came Unarmed. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Smith, Stevie. A Good Time Was Had by All. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Smith, Stevie. Mother, What Is Man?. Jonathan Cape, 1942.
Smith, Stevie. Novel on Yellow Paper. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Smith, Stevie. Over the Frontier. Jonathan Cape, 1938.