Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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Publishing | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 26 |
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... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | 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. Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 360 |
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 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay. |
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 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Along with Victor Gollancz
and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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/. |
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 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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... |
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... |
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