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.
qtd. in
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes.
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, Associates
Elizabeth Taylor
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, 1986.
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, 1969.
82
However, the poet Alfred Noyes
(a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...
names
Sara Jeannette Duncan
BirthName: Sarah Janet Duncan
Nickname: Redney
The origin of this family nickname is lost, according to biographer Marian Fowler
.
Married: Mrs. Everard Cotes
Pseudonyms: Sara Jeannette Duncan; Sara J. Duncan; Garth Grafton; Jane Wintergreen...
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,...
Publishing
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto and Windus
requested her to take out a passage in which a fisherman declares his love for another man, but she scornfully refused to withdraw the passage and even altered it to make the...
Publishing
Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie
was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review, 8 July 2013.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
EH
's book on her daily life in the form of a diary,
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
391
titled (from a remark of seventeenth-century local historian John Aubrey
) Gallipot Eyes, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
after...
Publishing
Vernon Lee
The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophicburlesque,
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, 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 of...
Timeline
1873: After John Camden Hotten's death, his publications...
Edwards, Peter David et al. Indexes to Fiction in Belgravia 1867-1899. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, University of Queensland, 1989.
passim
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).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.