A second travel book by SJD
, An American Girl in London, was published by Chatto and Windus
after serialisation in The Lady's Pictorial and the American edition of the Illustrated London News.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
200, 205
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Rosamond Lehmann
For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins
, who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond
of Chatto and Windus
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Rumer Godden
After long prodding from Jon's publisher, Norah Smallwood
of Chatto and Windus
, the two sisters followed this with Shiva's Pigeons: An Experience of India, 1972 (which deals with the period immediately after the...
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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.
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Mary Linskill
She worked on this novel through a recurrence of ill health: sleeplessness, neuralgia, and a failure of vitality. She dedicated it to Hyacinthe, Lady Dalby
, who had supplied the material for A Garland of...
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
348-9
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Elspeth Huxley
She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus
were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
This work marked her transition from journalism to book-length projects. The story was based on a series of articles she had written about this trip and was first serialized in The Globe and in The...
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Elizabeth Taylor
This was re-issued by her new publisher, Chatto and Windus
, in 1969. The title story was adapted for televising in November that year.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
382
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Selima Hill
SH
published her first poetry collection, Saying Hello at the Station, through Chatto
, whose poetry editor, Andrew Motion
, had himself approached her to ask for a volume.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40.
39
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Elspeth Huxley
She said that she felt the circumstances of life in 1949, with postwar shortages refusing to go away, called desperately for some attempt at humour.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
209
Chatto
offered this book to film companies in England...
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Christina Fraser-Tytler
Still available in its first edition into the early twentieth century, according to the 1905 Chatto and Windus
catalogue, Mistress Judith was bound in cloth and sold for 3s. 6d, or in illustrated boards for...
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Selima Hill
When she received Chatto's invitation, SH
had several hundred poems to choose from, lying hidden here and there around the house.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40.
40
Chatto
remained her publisher for two more volumes.
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Stevie Smith
SS
's Novel on Yellow Paper was published by Jonathan Cape
after rejection by Chatto and Windus
; she had written it, she said, in ten weeks.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.