Victor Gollancz

Standard Name: Gollancz, Victor

Connections

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Publishing Daphne Du Maurier
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...
Publishing Daphne Du Maurier
This was DDM 's third work for Victor Gollancz , fulfilling her first contract with him.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB 's novel Daughters and Sons came out, her first book to be published by Victor GollanczVictor Gollancz .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
Rose Macaulay had brought ICB to Gollancz's notice. He was known for unconventional and forceful advertising. He sold Daughters and Sons to the US publisher W. W. Norton , though it was far outside their...
Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
In the early 1960s ICB had a disastrous lunch with her publisher, Victor Gollancz . (It was only the second time she had met him in person.) She asked him to put out a collected...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
She cancelled her original contract with Macmillan out of concern that her pacifist and socialist convictions might prove problematic for this publisher. Testament of Experience was published with Victor Gollancz , himself a pacifist.
Publishing Elizabeth Bowen
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Phyllis Bentley
PB published a second novel this year (and her fourth in all), entitled The Partnership; she was encouraged to write it by Victor Gollancz .
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
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Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
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Publishing Phyllis Bentley
PB was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn 's then managing director, Victor Gollancz
Publishing Theodora Benson
As Elizabeth Jenkins told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe , but...
politics Valentine Ackland
With Warner, Ackland was a member of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club . Her connection with the Left Review brought her into contact with intellectuals such as Edgell Rickword and his wife Johnnie

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