Jonathan Cape

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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, 1983.
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, 2015.
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, 1977.
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 Elizabeth Jane Howard
She submitted the manuscript to the Ouspensky Society , of which she was at the time a member, and they insisted on some insignificant cuts. She was finding she could not make a living on...
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, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
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, 1983.
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 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 Kathleen E. Innes
This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape . Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf , who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors...
Publishing Olivia Manning
She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, 1988, p. v - xvi.
ix
Marie Belloc Lowndes , who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM that her...
Publishing Elinor Glyn
Shortly after the publication of The Career of Katherine Bush, Duckworth signed a contract with Jonathan Cape to publish cheap editions of EG 's books. This contract greatly expanded her reading public, as well...
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 Stevie Smith
Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice,
qtd. in
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
114
appeared on 11 January 1936. A reader for Jonathan Cape , Hamish Miles ...
Publishing Nadine Gordimer
NG 's novel A Guest of Honour appeared from Viking Press in New York. The London edition followed next year from Cape , who now succeeded to Gollancz as Gordimer's English publisher.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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 Doris Lessing
Michael Joseph had been her usual publisher in the 1950s and 60s. Her current hardback publisher, Jonathan Cape , and her current paperback publisher, had rejected this novel when she submitted it under her pseudonym...
Publishing Viola Meynell
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 .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
153
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
281, 306
Publishing Sybille Bedford
She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...

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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.
Carrington, Noel et al. “Carrington’s Early Life”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 501-5.
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.