At the time she began the novel, RL
admitted that she had very little knowledge of contemporary women's writing other than May Sinclair
's. She dedicated this work to Dadie Rylands
, who had advised...
EH
published through ChattoThe Prince Buys the Manor, an extravaganza of a satirical novel dedicated to Norah Smallwood
as silken spur, incisive counsellor, and warm-hearted friend.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
408
Employer
Elizabeth Jane Howard
In winter 1953 EJH
, aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus
, which was then run by Norah Smallwood
and Ian Parsons
. She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them...
Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
44
She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett
(who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Kate Clanchy
KC
's second Arvon
course was taught by Simon Armitage
, who had recently become the poetry editor at Chatto and Windus
. Armitage offered KC
a chance to publish. This led to the appearance...
Literary responses
Rosamond Lehmann
Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL
's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile.
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown.
82
However, the poet Alfred Noyes
(a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...
Occupation
Virginia Woolf
During the previous fifteen years of its life it had earned an income of £814 per annum (an average which takes in the total of three pounds in 1924 and £2,442 in 1938, its most...
Occupation
Elizabeth Jane Howard
In 1958, the Day-Lewis affair having put an end to her Chatto and Windus
job, EJH
worked briefly as a fiction editor for Weidenfeld and Nicolson
. She gave up this job when her agent,...
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 279
Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
In about 1935 EH
began to plan a book purely about the Africans, which would be in large part an argument against the anti-colonial views of Margery Perham
.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
124
She planned it in the...
Publishing
Vernon Lee
The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophic burlesque,
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, pp. 6-27.
15
was commissioned after Constance Smedley
and Maxwell Armfield
invited VL
to speak at one of their Chelsea political meetings held to discuss the causes...
Publishing
Ann Bridge
Ann Bridge
published her final Julia Probyn spy novel, Julia in Ireland, in the USA after her usual British publisher, Chatto and Windus
, had turned it down.
Publishing
Ouida
Ouida
's earnings as a writer provided her with a solid, even luxurious, living as long as her triple-decker sensation novels were popular. By the mid 1860s she was earning at least £1,500 per year...
Timeline
1873: After John Camden Hotten's death, his publications...
1895: Chatto and Windus published The Professor's...
Women writers item
1895
Chatto and Windus
published The Professor's Experiment, a novel by Margaret Hungerford
(who was near the end of her life but not yet slackening in productivity).
1908: Chatto and Windus of London began publication...
Writing climate item
1908
Chatto and Windus
of London began publication of series of books for which they commissioned Herbert P. Horne
to develop the Florence typeface.
1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...