Victor Gollancz

The political theorist Harold Laski was ML 's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...

The TLS reviewer thought this a novel of our times, a competent exposé of materistic living. However, it found the book's lively topicality to be marred by oversimplification: the Sugdens are too bad, the Lamberts...

After the war EJ was poor enough to be glad to take up an offer from Victor Gollancz to read manuscripts submitted to the firm. In this capacity she was proud both of picking out...

In her day EJ knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie , whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. She counted among her...

She worked on this book during her year of exploring London after graduating from university, enthralled by the writing process more intensely than she was ever to be again. She dedicated this book to...

Miss Cartwright , EJ 's headmistress when she was eight, wrote to congratulate her but implicitly to warn her against writing for self-glorification. Reviews in general were excellent, as indicated by snippets quoted...

EJ revised her draft at the suggestion of Victor Gollancz , making cuts which she felt depleted the feeling in the novel but which he felt strengthened it. It was not until she re-read part...

NJ issued a bildungsroman, That Wild Lie—, in which Emmanuel Gollantz emigrates from Vienna and makes good in Victorian London. On his family firm she then centred a hugely successful series or saga...

It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...

MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage

The death of Victor Gollancz , DDM 's publisher for more than thirty years, made a great change in her career, though she continued her association with his publishing house.

DDM left Heinemann to publish this book with Victor Gollancz (a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown , urged her to...

This was DDM 's third work for Victor Gollancz , fulfilling her first contract with him.

The success of the movie (Academy Award for Best Picture) made DDM one of the most sought-after writers of her day and solidified her connection with Hollywood, although she hated the film.She wrote to her...

She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann , much to Victor Gollancz 's dismay.