Chatto and Windus

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Valentine Ackland
In the American edition, published by Viking Press in November 1933, the two authors' love poems are printed with no attributions, so that readers could not ascertain who wrote each individual poem. However, in the...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Catherine Carswell
The novel had been submitted to Duckworth in the spring of 1918, but was rejected as too long (production costs had more than doubled as a result of the war). Chatto and Windus offered a...
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
The collection was re-issued posthumously by Chatto and Windus as Twelve Poems in 1980, with a foreword by Sir Peter Pears .
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
283
Publishing 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...
Publishing Margery Allingham
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. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
248, 171
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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
Publishing 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)
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, pp. 39-40.
39
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...
Publishing 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.
209
Chatto offered this book to film companies in England...
Publishing Catherine Carswell
She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
113
She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...
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
, pp. 39-40.
40
Chatto remained her publisher for two more volumes.
Publishing Stevie Smith
SS 's Novel on Yellow Paper was published by Jonathan Cape after rejection by Chatto and Windus ; she had written it, she said, in ten weeks.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
253, 256-7
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1806 (12 September 1936): 717
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago.
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
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...

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Texts

Croker, B. M. Mr Jervis. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Croker, B. M. Terence. Chatto and Windus, 1899.
Croker, B. M. The Cat’s Paw. Chatto and Windus, 1902.
Croker, B. M. To Let. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Croker, B. M. To Let. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Croker, B. M. Village Tales and Jungle Tragedies. Chatto and Windus, 1895.
Desai, Anita. Fasting, Feasting. Chatto and Windus, 1999.
Desai, Anita. The Artist of Disappearance. Chatto and Windus, 2011.
Desai, Anita. The Zigzag Way. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. My Flirtations. Chatto and Windus, 1892.
Drabble, Margaret. Safe as Houses. Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. A Daughter of Today. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. A Social Departure. Chatto and Windus, 1890.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. An American Girl in London. Chatto and Windus, 1891.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto and Windus, 1891.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette, and Hal Hurst. Vernon’s Aunt. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
Dunn, Nell, editor. Grandmothers. Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
Empson, William. Milton’s God. Chatto and Windus, 1961, p. 280 pp.
Empson, William. Poems. Chatto and Windus, 1935, p. viii; 48 pp.
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. Chatto and Windus, 1930, p. 325 pp.
Empson, William. Some Versions of Pastoral. Chatto and Windus, 1935.
Empson, William. The Structure of Complex Words. Chatto and Windus, 1951.
Empson, William. Using Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Evans, Margiad. A Candle Ahead. Chatto and Windus, 1956.