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...
Publishing
Christina Fraser-Tytler
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...
Publishing
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.
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Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
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
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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)...
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...
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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...