Chatto and Windus

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 English...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927. She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...

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...

Although Murry had overseen serialisation of parts of The Savage Pilgrimage in a magazine under his editorship, he wrote to Chatto and Windus within two weeks of the book's appearance to demand withdrawal of the...

CC 's lost earnings must have amounted to a much larger sum. She stood by what she had written as the truth, known to Lawrence's family and friends, and was angry with Chatto and Windus

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...

British Book News approved what it saw as IM 's abandonment of the deliberately eccentric and inconsequential approach of the earlier novels [for] a straightforward tale of the conflict between love and conventional social obligations...

The review in British Book News noted the psychological depth of this novel was unusual for MA , but not wholly new, in that she had already experimented with this kind of exploration in The...

As a study of old age this is unique among ET 's writing, but it shares her distinctive blend of tough-mindedness with sensitive feeling. Her heroine, the widowed Mrs Palfrey, feels she grew up in...