Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Victor Gollancz
Standard Name: Gollancz, Victor
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | |
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 | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Along with Victor Gollancz
and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror
. |
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. 177 |
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, 18691955. 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. 148-9 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. 153 |
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