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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. 133 |
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. 130 |
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. 24 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 144 |
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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