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
Elspeth Huxley
The commission for this book from Chatto
had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham
on behalf of the Colonial Office
for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and...
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,...
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.
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However, the poet Alfred Noyes
(a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Timeline
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Texts
Huxley, Aldous. Island. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
Huxley, Aldous. Letters of Aldous Huxley. Editor Smith, Grover, Chatto and Windus, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Limbo. Chatto and Windus, 1920.
Huxley, Aldous. Literature and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Huxley, Aldous, editor. Texts and Pretexts. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, 1954.
Huxley, Elspeth. A Man from Nowhere. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Huxley, Elspeth. A New Earth. Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Huxley, Elspeth. A Thing to Love. Chatto and Windus, 1954.
Huxley, Elspeth. Brave New Victuals. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
Huxley, Elspeth. Forks and Hope. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Huxley, Elspeth. Four Guineas. Chatto and Windus, 1954.
Huxley, Elspeth. I Don’t Mind If I Do. Chatto and Windus, 1950.
Huxley, Elspeth. Love Among the Daughters. Chatto and Windus, 1968, http://pmb.
Huxley, Elspeth. Out in the Midday Sun. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
Huxley, Elspeth. Red Strangers. Chatto and Windus, 1939.
Huxley, Elspeth, and Laelia Goehr. Suki, A Little Tiger. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Huxley, Elspeth. The Flame Trees of Thika. Chatto and Windus, 1959.
Huxley, Elspeth. The Merry Hippo. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Huxley, Elspeth. The Mottled Lizard. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
Huxley, Elspeth. The Prince Buys the Manor. Chatto and Windus, 1982.
Huxley, Elspeth. The Red Rock Wilderness. Chatto and Windus, 1957.