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
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.
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She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
Jonathan Cape
put out a handsome, small-size collected edition of EB
's titles so far.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September. Jonathan Cape.
prelims
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape
, turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton
wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion. Constable
finally agreed...
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.
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.
171-2
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
Again Jonathan Cape
made her alter two or three words.
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)...
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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.