Jonathan Cape

STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...

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...

Jonathan Cape collected MW 's Fifty-one Poems: hitherto unpublished in book form in 1946.

RW published a collection of essays and reviews, The Strange Necessity, with Jonathan Cape .

RW produced several introductions to novels by other writers, including Jonathan Cape 's editions of Kathleen Coyle 's Liv (1929), Jane Austen 's Northanger Abbey (1932), and Sarah Orne Jewett 's The Only Rose and Other Tales (1937).

Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...

DW published her first book, the novel Young Anne, with Jonathan Cape after it had been first rejected by Heinemann .

She wrote in her diary about taking it to the post office and registering it for a shilling. She also recorded her mixed feelings: At one minute I feel it is quite good enough to...

The reader's report for Cape spoke of her extraordinary sense of humour and remarkable powers of characterization.

She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie. She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...

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.

EHY 's novel The Vicar's Daughter appeared after revisions suggested by Edward Garnett , the reader for Jonathan Cape .

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...

She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape in...