Victor Gollancz

Book critic Ivor Brown of the New York Times Book Review commented on the academic neglect of DDM 's work in his review of The Parasites: When the academic professors of Literature in Our...

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...

PB published a second novel this year (and her fourth in all), entitled The Partnership; she was encouraged to write it by Victor Gollancz .

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 .

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...

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.