Naomi Mitchison
praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
153-4
Looking back in 1979 Mitchison
characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...
Reception
Mary Webb
MW
's friend Caradoc Evans
(who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own...
Reception
Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, pp. 66-7.
66
Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
Reception
Jane Austen
Back in England in 2007, David Lassman
(director of the Austen Festival in Bath and a would-be novelist with a pile of rejection slips) mounted an experiment, submitting the openings of Austen novels, blind, to...
Reception
Radclyffe Hall
Sir William Joynson-Hicks
, Home Secretary, wrote to order Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
to discontinue publication of RH
's The Well of Loneliness, calling it inherently obscene and gravely detrimental to the public interest.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
247
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
395n10
Reception
Radclyffe Hall
Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape
's offices, seizing both Cape
and Pegasus Press
editions of The Well.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
253
Textual Features
Naomi Mitchison
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...
Textual Production
Anita Brookner
AB
issued another novel, of which the English edition by Jonathan Cape
was entitled A Family Romance.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production
Bryher
In 1925, Bryher published with Jonathan CapeA Picture Geography for Little Children, Part One: Asia.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
104
She had first developed a passion for the study of foreign cultures as a child, when she...
Textual Production
H. D.
H. D.
published with Jonathan Cape
her third volume of original verse, Heliodora, and Other Poems.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production
Una Troubridge
The volume appeared as number four in Secker and Warburg
's Uniform Edition of Works by Colette.
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.
UT
had met Colette for the first time on 19 October 1926, when she asked if she...
Textual Production
Winifred Holtby
WH
's third novel, The Land of Green Ginger, was published by Jonathan Cape
.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
229
Textual Production
Mary Webb
Jonathan Cape
collected MW
's Fifty-one Poems: hitherto unpublished in book form in 1946.
Timeline
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Texts
Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women. Jonathan Cape, 1952.
Pym, Barbara. Jane and Prudence. Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Pym, Barbara. Less Than Angels. Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Pym, Barbara. No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Rhys, Jean. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie. Jonathan Cape.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Anarchism Is Not Enough. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Contemporaries and Snobs. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Experts Are Puzzled. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Poems: A Joking Word. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Robertson, E. Arnot. ’Cullum.’. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Devices and Desires. Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Four Frightened People. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Ordinary Families. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Summer’s Lease. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Signpost. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Three Came Unarmed. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Smith, Stevie. A Good Time Was Had by All. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Smith, Stevie. Mother, What Is Man?. Jonathan Cape, 1942.
Smith, Stevie. Novel on Yellow Paper. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Smith, Stevie. Over the Frontier. Jonathan Cape, 1938.
