Victor Gollancz

Standard Name: Gollancz, Victor

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Literary responses Naomi Mitchison
Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...
Reception Naomi Mitchison
The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM
Family and Intimate relationships Nancy Mitford
Jessica , the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as...
Publishing George Orwell
In a remarkable act of faith in GO , publisher Victor Gollancz advanced him five hundred pounds to finance the writing of The Road to Wigan Pier, GO 's account of the lives of...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
Along with Victor Gollancz and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Eleanor Rathbone
At the time of her death, Rathbone was working with Victor Gollancz and others on sending food supplies to Germany, where people were suffering actual starvation through the extremely severe postwar winter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anthologization Maude Royden
MR contributed two essays entitled The Woman's Movement of the Future and Modern Love to Victor Gollancz 's collection The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism.
Royden, Maude. “The Woman’s Movement of the Future”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, pp. 128-46.
title-page and prelims
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell.
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Employer Evelyn Sharp
In 1929, feeling short of money, ES investigated several paid jobs to supplement her journalism. She worked for a while as a publisher's reader for Victor Gollancz .
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press.
187
politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club , and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
When Victor Gollancz , John Strachey , and Harold Laski founded the Left Book Club (for the distribution and discussion of radical texts on socialism, fascism, and war) AWE was an early member.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Laity, Paul, editor. Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz.
prelims
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE , Rose Macaulay , Victor Gollancz , Jonathan Cape , and others formed the Civil Liberties Press Bureau , to protest publicly against the banning of books and to criticise newspaper coverage of various social issues.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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