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.
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She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
The novel was published by Gollancz
, which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz
, who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
22
Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...
Publishing
Deborah Levy
DL
took a new direction with a dialogue poem An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell, published through Jonathan Cape
with illustrations by Andrzej Borkowski
.
And Other Stories Publishing. http://www.andotherstories.org/.
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape
objected to the words poor bloody tarts
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in a poem she had written for this volume; she dropped the poem. The book was reprinted in the Travellers' Library
in 1931.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
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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.
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago.
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, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
To produce this work RM
conducted extensive research in both London and Lisbon (which she visited in 1943, able to go because it was a neutral country, but dogged by illness while she was there)...
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
Again Jonathan Cape
made her alter two or three words.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
A revised edition was published by Jonathan Cape
in 1928 under the title Lest Ye Die.
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
Naomi Mitchison
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...
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
Shena Mackay
SM
's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press
after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape
.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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.
Hamilton, Ian. “Bohemian Rhapsodist”. The Guardian, pp. Saturday Review 6 - 7.
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Stevie Smith
Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice,
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.