Chatto and Windus

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...

She translated The Cherry Orchard in 1906 (two years after its first appearance in Russian) and submitted the result to Incorporated Stage Society . For a long time she received no response, but on 28...

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...

In 1929 Random House of New York printed 475 copies of HD's single-sheet, four-page poem, Red Roses for Bronze—which was also the title of her collection (nearly 150 pages) published in London by Chatto and Windus

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.

When she received Chatto's invitation, SH had several hundred poems to choose from, lying hidden here and there around the house.Chatto remained her publisher for two more volumes.

SH published a slim volume of nine stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, with Chatto and Windus .

In winter 1953 EJH , aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus , which was then run by Norah Smallwood and Ian Parsons . She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them...

In 1958, the Day-Lewis affair having put an end to her Chatto and Windus job, EJH worked briefly as a fiction editor for Weidenfeld and Nicolson . She gave up this job when her agent,...

A detail of this book got EH into trouble. She wrote in the context of a tea-party given by Dr J. B. Danquah about pots calling kettles black, and he objected that this suggested...

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...

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.Chatto offered this book to film companies in England...

It deals with several political murders: that of a white couple by trusted Africans in their employ, that of a loyalist African chief. One of the chief's sons is a District Officer, which puts him...

It was strongly influenced by the Mau Mau struggle. Chatto and Windus had their lawyer Michael Rubinstein vet the script, and he advised bringing in Jomo Kenyatta by name, so that he could not be...

She prepared for this book with three months touring Australia as a semi-official visitor; she found her trip both rushed and expensive. There were apparently hopes in some quarters that her book would help to...