British Library Catalogue.
Victor Gollancz
Connections
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Anthologization | Teresa Deevy | Katie Roche was written and performed while the new Irish Constitution was being drafted. The Constitution proclaimed that a woman can best support the state and the common good by her life within the home... |
Anthologization | Teresa Deevy | Katie Roche reached print (along with Dodie Smith
's Call It a Day) in Famous Plays of 1935-6, issued in 1936 by Victor Gollancz
. In 1939 came her own Three Plays... |
Anthologization | Naomi Royde-Smith | It was reprinted the same year by its publisher, Gollancz
, in an omnibus volume entitled Famous Novels of 1931, which also included works by L. A. G. Strong
, Helen Ashton
, and Francis Iles
. |
Literary responses | Betty Miller | Again St John Ervine
offered an exacting critique. Words intoxicate you . . . other women get decently drunk on gin but you must have lexicons and lexicons before you will consent to fall on... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Doreen Wallace | DW
, in the midst of her own and her husband
's personal and practical struggle with the Tithe Laws, published with Victor Gollancz
a controlled but furious polemic entitled The Tithe War. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1682 (26 April 1934): 302 Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz, 1934. 3-8 Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 62 |
Performance of text | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Publishing | Nancy Cunard | |
Publishing | George Orwell | |
Publishing | Una Marson | UM
started writing an autobiography, then entitled Autobiography of a Black Girl, by the age of twenty-five. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 80 |
Publishing | George Orwell | Victor Gollancz
had rejected it for fear of libel actions, since its use of actual people and events was unmistakable. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Publishing | Betty Miller | BM
published Farewell Leicester Square with Robert Hall
six years after Victor Gollancz
(until then her chosen publisher) had turned it down on account of its sensitive subject-matter. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii. xi |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bowen | The novel was published by Gollancz
, which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz
, who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel... |
Publishing | Margaret Roberts | This was re-issued (as by the author of Atelier du Lys) by the Church of England
publishing house, the National Society's Depository
, in 1890. Gollancz
put out a new edition in 1967 with... |
Publishing | Margaret Roberts | |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007. 113 |
Timeline
1927
Victor Gollancz
established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
December 1927
Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan
died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz
. It became an immediate best-seller...
Early 1957
John Braine
's novelRoom at the Top was published by Gollancz
after eight rejections, on the advice of Elizabeth Jenkins
in her capacity as publisher's reader.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
(1 March 1957): 125
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
107-8
8 February 1967