Jonathan Cape

After years of rejections, BP succeeded in publishing her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape .

BP 's seventh novel, An Unsuitable Attachment, was refused by her usual publisher, Cape . She was upset by this news, judging it all of a piece with what had been for her a...

In a letter to Philip LarkinBP wrote that she felt she had been treated very badly by Cape , but that she was also not altogether surprised. For one thing she knew that other...

Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England. Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...

The publishing of BP 's new books and reprinting of her previous ones were helped enormously by editors Alan Maclean and James Wright at Macmillan . They worked through the difficulties of dealing with Cape

She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from...

Her previous publisher, Jonathan Cape , turned it down for fear of a libel suit from Ford. For the same reason, Chatto and Windus insisted that the title Quartet, which Rhys preferred, be changed...

Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape , turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion. Constable finally agreed...

Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...

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.

SS published her third novel, The Holiday, with Chapman and Hall , after Jonathan Cape rejected it.

SS 's first collection of poetry, A Good Time Was Had by All, was published by Jonathan Cape , with her own spiky drawings.

Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice, appeared on 11 January 1936. A reader for Jonathan Cape , Hamish Miles ...

Naomi Mitchison praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed. Looking back in 1979 Mitchison characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...

The volume appeared as number four in Secker and Warburg 's Uniform Edition of Works by Colette.UT had met Colette for the first time on 19 October 1926, when she asked if she...