Jonathan Cape

This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber , but he...

BP 's seventh novel, An Unsuitable Attachment, was refused by her usual publisher, Cape . She was upset by this news, judging it all of a piece with what had been for her a...

Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...

STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...

The book was accepted by Jonathan Cape . Mr Cape had EJH to lunch, made a pass at her, and suggested cutting the manuscript, but when she demurred said he would publish it as it...

MF 's next novel was written during the evenings while she worked as a teacher, which she found exhausting. It was, however, accepted by Jonathan Cape in spring 1963. Its acceptance brought her a £150...

She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape in...

The reader's report for Cape spoke of her extraordinary sense of humour and remarkable powers of characterization.

Edward Garnett , the reader for Cape , thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence 's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...

Hamish Miles , an editor of the magazine, became her lover and an important career influence. Though he rejected the novel manuscript she first submitted to him at Cape (and refused point-blank to introduce her...

Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post and William Plomer (who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape ). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith (with whom she put herself on...

As a very young woman OM began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles (Edward Garnett 's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape , and editor of a little magazine). He was...

LI 's fiction and essays appeared in many publications, both collections and periodicals. She figured in British as well as Caribbean anthologies: in Adventure and Discovery for Boys and Girls (a series published by Jonathan Cape

LBL 's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape 's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.