Jonathan 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...

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 ).

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...

NM published with Jonathan Cape the novel she had worked on through the war years: she called it The Bull Calves.

NM says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...

She dedicated this book to My Lover: she thanks both H. T. Wade Gery and her husband (identified by their initials) for talking through her subject with her. She finished the manuscript at...

NM originally headed the first part of this in manuscript Reel One. She said later it would make a smashing movie. She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...

Jonathan Cape objected to the words poor bloody tarts in a poem she had written for this volume; she dropped the poem. The book was reprinted in the Travellers' Library in 1931.

Again Jonathan Cape made her alter two or three words.

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...

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...

Twenty-five years after her death, Alice Meynell : Prose and Poetry, Centenary Volume was published by Jonathan Cape , with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West .

VM published with Cape a novel, at first entitled Follow Thy Fair Sun, which she then revised and re-issued as Lovers in 1944 with Richards .

As a very young woman OM began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles (Edward Garnett 's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape , and editor of a little magazine). He was...

Edward Garnett , the reader for Cape , thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence 's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...