Around 1952, WM
finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan
, Chatto and Windus
, and Hamish Hamilton
, but all three rejected it. While...
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Stevie Smith
A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency
rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find.
qtd. in
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
MA
published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus
, which had succeeded to Heinemann
as her English publisher.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
248, 171
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Catherine Carswell
The Hodder and Stoughton
reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC
replied defiantly...
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Iris Murdoch
She finished her second draft on 28 March 1953, convinced at this point that it was romantic, sentimental, and bad, and gave it to Elias Canetti
to read. It was submitted to two successive publishers,...
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Aldous Huxley
Though AH
had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus
in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before...
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Catherine Carswell
She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
113
She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...
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Elspeth Huxley
Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...
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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.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 279
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Anne Sexton
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy
of OUP
had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS
withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
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Elspeth Huxley
EH
published with Chatto and WindusFour Guineas, A Journey through West Africa, illustrated with photographs: a book in which she combined tourism with politics.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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.
EH
did herself harm in business terms by declining to sign a contract after Norah Smallwood
expressed enthusiasm about a six-month sample, covering April to October 1974. She...
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Iris Murdoch
It was dedicated to Rosemary Cramp
, who had been IM
's student and later her colleague. Later this year it was suggested that IM
's publisher, Chatto
, ought to have edited her work...
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Catherine Carswell
A somewhat revised edition of the book (in which CC
felt she made her case against Murry stronger) was published later the same year in New York by Harcourt Brace
and in London by Martin Secker
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Texts
Byatt, A. S. Passions of the Mind. Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Byatt, A. S. Possession. Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Byatt, A. S. Shadow of a Sun. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Byatt, A. S. Still Life. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
Byatt, A. S. Sugar and Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1987.
Byatt, A. S. The Biographer’s Tale. Chatto and Windus, 2000.
Byatt, A. S. The Children’s Book. Chatto and Windus, 2009.
Byatt, A. S. The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
Byatt, A. S. The Game. Chatto and Windus, 1967.
Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
Byatt, A. S. The Virgin in the Garden. Chatto and Windus, 1978.
Carswell, Catherine. The Camomile: An Invention. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Carswell, Catherine. The Life of Robert Burns. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1930.
Carswell, Catherine. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Carter, Angela. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
Carter, Angela. Black Venus. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
Carter, Angela, and Salman Rushdie. Burning Your Boats: The Collected Angela Carter: Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Carter, Angela. Expletives Deleted. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1992.
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1997.
Carter, Angela. Wise Children. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Chisholm, Kate. Wits and Wives. Dr Johnson in the Company of Women. Chatto and Windus, 2011.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Collins, Wilkie et al. Blind Love. Chatto and Windus, 1890, 3 vols.
Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1883, 3 vols.