Jonathan Cape

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...

Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.

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...

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...

In 1925, Bryher published with Jonathan CapeA Picture Geography for Little Children, Part One: Asia. She had first developed a passion for the study of foreign cultures as a child, when she...

AB issued another novel, of which the English edition by Jonathan Cape was entitled A Family Romance.

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

LBL 's first volume of poetry, published like all the rest during her lifetime by Cape , was The White Hare, and Other Poems.

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...

The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (seventy-nine pieces) were published posthumously by Jonathan Cape .

Jonathan Cape put out a handsome, small-size collected edition of EB 's titles so far.

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...

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...

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...