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.
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Dedications
Rosamond Lehmann
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...
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.
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,...
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
EH
's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus
after Macmillan
refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision.
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...