Victor Gollancz

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.

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.

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.)...

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 .

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.

Along with Victor Gollancz and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror .

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.

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...

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...

A selection from NM 's million-word war-time diary, edited by Dorothy Sheridan, was published by Victor Gollancz as Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945.

NM approached Victor Gollancz as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...

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...

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

BM was understandably devastated by the rejection of Gollancz . She had told a friend it would be not only her best novel to date but one of her publisher's best ever too.

RM also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle , presided over by Dorothy and Reeve Brooke and later by Sylvia and Robert Lynd . These gatherings were attended by RM 's friends...