Her mother had told her she could do better than Isak Dinesen
when Out of Africa first appeared in 1937. EH
's first draft was a novel called The Vertical Rays of the Sun...
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John Strange Winter
The first short fiction collection of JSW
(pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard), appeared: Cavalry Life; or, Sketches and Stories In Barracks and Out, published by Chatto and Windus
.
Jerome, Jerome K., editor. My First Book. Chatto and Windus, 1894.
She had already had the same response from Chatto and Windus
. She had been planning publication of this volume in May 1954, but holdups from her constant alterations (Awful: to be so undecided...
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JSW
's second volume of army stories, Regimental Legends, was published by Chatto and Windus
.
Other novels that CS
produced almost concurrently with her trilogy were The Emotions of Martha, 1911 (issued through the Religious Tract Society
and dedicated to Margaret Armfield
), Ruth's Marriage, 1912 (also through...
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Elspeth Huxley
EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
qtd. in
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
She deposited a hundred-poem cycle, Conversations with a Prince, with Chatto
in 1963, to ensure its survival; she asked for it back in 1989, perhaps because she no longer saw herself as a poet.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Daisy Ashford
DA
's juvenile novella The Young Visiters (written in 1890, when she was just nine years old) was published by Chatto and Windus
in London, with a preface by J. M. Barrie
(author of Peter Pan).
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Carol Rumens
CR
edited Making for the Open: The Chatto
Book of Post-Feminist Poetry, 1964-1984. Its selection from fifty-six women poets is accompanied by a short but fighting introduction to match the controversy of the book's title.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Soon after the success of The Young Visiters, some of DA
's other juvenile stories were published in London by Chatto and Windus
and in New York by George H. Doran Company
in Daisy...
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Harriett Jay
A New York edition appeared the next year, and another in 1882. Chatto and Windus
re-issued The Dark Colleen in 1878 and 1896.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts, 2006.
