Jonathan Cape

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Publishing Dorothy Whipple
DW published her first book, the novel Young Anne, with Jonathan Cape after it had been first rejected by Heinemann .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Doris Lessing
Published in Toronto by the CBC in 1986, it was reprinted the next year in London by Jonathan Cape .
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
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 Barbara Pym
Both Cape and Chatto and Windus rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...
Publishing Radclyffe Hall
RH 's landmark lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, was published by Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape after having been rejected by several other publishers.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
234-7, 240
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
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...
Publishing Denise Levertov
She had sent the title poem to Robert Duncan on 26 April 1969.
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press.
631
The book was published by Cape in London the same year. The Newberry Library in Chicago holds a calligraphic manuscript of...
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
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...
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...
Publishing Barbara Pym
This novel's initial rejection by Jonathan Cape in 1963 had marked the beginning of fourteen years in which BP could not find a publisher for her work.
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan.
213-15
In the form in which it eventually...
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
She dedicated this book to My Lover:
Mitchison, Naomi. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Hodder and Stoughton.
10
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...
Publishing Jean Rhys
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...
Publishing Radclyffe Hall
RH 's The Well of Loneliness was reissued by Pegasus Press , an English-language press based in Paris, after the Home Secretary suppressed Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape 's first edition.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
247-8
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
13, 15
She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...
Publishing Deborah Levy
DL switched publishers from Jonathan Cape to Bloomsbury for her next novel, Billy and Girl.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
NM originally headed the first part of this in manuscript Reel One. She said later it would make a smashing movie.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
162
She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...

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Texts

Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Lilian Baylis. The Old Vic. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Folly’s Handbook. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
Holtby, Winifred. Poor Caroline. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Holtby, Winifred. The Land of Green Ginger. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Housman, A. E. More Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. After Julius. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Mr Wrong. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Beautiful Visit. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Long View. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Sea Change. Jonathan Cape, 1959.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, and Robert Aickman. We Are for the Dark. Jonathan Cape, 1951.
Innes, Kathleen E. The Bible as Literature. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Jones, Robert, and Oliver Marriott. Anatomy of a Merger: A History of G.E.C., A.E.I. and English Electric. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Kavan, Anna. Asylum Piece, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Lessing, Doris. Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Lessing, Doris. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Lessing, Doris. Shikasta. Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Lessing, Doris. The Fifth Child. Jonathan Cape, 1988.
Lessing, Doris. The Good Terrorist. Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Lessing, Doris. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Jonathan Cape, 1982.