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/.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Deborah Levy
DL
switched publishers from Jonathan Cape
to Bloomsbury for her next novel, Billy and Girl.