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...
Publishing
Ella Hepworth Dixon
The stories in this volume had previously appeared in journals such as The World, Yellow Book, Lady's Pictorial, and the Pall Mall Magazine.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview, 2004.
The book, edited by Philip Terry
and published in London by Chatto and Windus
, brought together nineteen distinguished contributors from around the world, whose approaches to Ovid
vary considerably.
Warner, Marina. “Leto’s Flight”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, 2000, pp. 160-82.
160-82
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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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Sara Jeannette Duncan
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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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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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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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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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
Publishing
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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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.