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
.
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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Elspeth Huxley
Harold Macmillan
argued that readers would find EH
's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...
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Barbara Pym
Both Cape
and Chatto and Windus
rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan
after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...
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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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Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
received £542 in royalties that September from her American publisher, the Viking Press
, but only half that amount from Chatto and Windus
in England.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
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Elspeth Huxley
She worked at this book during 1947, disturbed at the news that the US journalist Negley Farson
was planning a rival book on the same subject. (When his Last Chance in Africa appeared in 1949...
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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...
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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...
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...
Publishing
Sylvia Townsend Warner
It was dedicated to Stone's wife, Janet. The first edition contained sixteen engravings and sixteen poems. Ruari McLean of The Monotype Corporation
designed it as a specimen for a new typeface (Dante Roman and Italic)...
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Texts
Bridge, Ann. A Place to Stand. Chatto and Windus, 1953.
Bridge, Ann. Emergency in the Pyrenees. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
Bridge, Ann. Enchanter’s Nightshade. Chatto and Windus, 1937.
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Bridge, Ann. Four-Part Setting. Chatto and Windus, 1939.
Bridge, Ann. Frontier Passage. Chatto and Windus, 1942.
Bridge, Ann. Illyrian Spring. Chatto and Windus, 1935.
Bridge, Ann. Peking Picnic. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Bridge, Ann. Portrait of My Mother. Chatto and Windus, 1955.
Bridge, Ann. Singing Waters. Chatto and Windus, 1945.
Bridge, Ann. The Dark Moment. Chatto and Windus, 1952.
Bridge, Ann. The Ginger Griffin. Chatto and Windus, 1934.
Bridge, Ann. The Ginger Griffin. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Bridge, Ann. The Lighthearted Quest. Chatto and Windus, 1956.
Bridge, Ann. The Malady in Madeira. Chatto and Windus, 1970.
Bridge, Ann, and Susan Lowndes Marques. The Numbered Account. Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Bridge, Ann. The Portuguese Escape. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Bridge, Ann. The Tightening String. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
Byatt, A. S. Angels and Insects. Chatto and Windus, 1992.
Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, 2000, pp. 131-57.
Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
Byatt, A. S. Degrees of Freedom. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
Byatt, A. S. Elementals. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Byatt, A. S., and Ignês Sodré. Imagining Characters. Chatto and Windus, 1995.