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.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
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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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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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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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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Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie
was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
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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.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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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.
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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Ella Hepworth Dixon
It had already been serialized in the Lady's Pictorial from 23 January to 30 April this year.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
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Chatto and Windus
offered EHD
thirty-five pounds for the book, and wanted her to put her own...
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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.
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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. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Carswell, Catherine. The Life of Robert Burns. Chatto and Windus, 1930.
Carswell, Catherine. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Carter, Angela. Expletives Deleted. Chatto and Windus, 1992.
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. Chatto and Windus, 1997.
Carter, Angela. Wise Children. 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.
Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1883.
Collins, Wilkie. The Evil Genius. Chatto and Windus, 1886.
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady. Chatto and Windus, 1875.
Croker, B. M. Infatuation. Chatto and Windus, 1899.