Ouida
's earnings as a writer provided her with a solid, even luxurious, living as long as her triple-decker sensation novels were popular. By the mid 1860s she was earning at least £1,500 per year...
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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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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...
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.
34: 277
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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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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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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...
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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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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)...
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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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.