Victor Gollancz

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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 .
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.
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...
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]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1682 (26 April 1934): 302
Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
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Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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Performance of text Daphne Du Maurier
DDM 's autobiographicalplayThe Years Between opened in Manchester; it played in London's West End in 1945, and was published by Gollancz the same year.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
187, 189, 426
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Publishing Phyllis Bentley
PB was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn 's then managing director, Victor Gollancz
Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
This was followed in later 1955 by Ten Fascinating Women (whose title, again, EJ hated but whose text she very much enjoyed writing). She did not think highly of Sampson Low as a publisher, but...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.
Publishing Naomi Royde-Smith
With All Star Cast, a novel of experimental structure involving an inset murder-mystery play, NRS switched her publisher for fiction from Gollancz to Macmillan .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1792 (6 June 1936): 477
Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ had been interested in Queen Elizabeth since, when she was twelve, her father stood her just over half the cost of Mandell Creighton 's book about the queen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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She was first commissioned for...
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 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
Gollancz put out a new edition in 1969 with an introduction by Gillian Avery .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz

Timeline

1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...

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1927

Victor Gollancz established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
201
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
127
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
340

December 1927: Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan...

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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 novel Room at the Top was published...

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Early 1957

John Braine 's novel Room 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]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(1 March 1957): 125
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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8 February 1967: Victor Gollancz died, and his publishing...

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8 February 1967

Victor Gollancz died, and his publishing firm was taken over by his daughter Livia .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

Texts

Benson, Theodora. Concert Pitch. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
Benson, Theodora. Façade. Victor Gollancz, 1933.
Benson, Theodora et al. Foreigners. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Benson, Theodora et al. How to be Famous. Victor Gollancz, 1937.
Benson, Theodora et al. Muddling Through. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Benson, Theodora. Rehearsal for Death. Victor Gollancz, 1954.
Benson, Theodora, and Betty Askwith. Seven Basketfuls. Victor Gollancz, 1932.
Benson, Theodora. The Man from the Tunnel, and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz, 1950.
Benson, Theodora. The Undertaker’s Wife. Victor Gollancz, 1947.
Benson, Theodora. Which Way?. Victor Gollancz, 1931.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Editorial Materials”. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters, edited by Trudy Bliss, Victor Gollancz, 1950, p. various pages.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Look at All Those Roses. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Cat Jumps and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. To the North. Victor Gollancz.
Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz, 1983.
Cannan, Joanna. Princes in the Land. Victor Gollancz, 1938.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz, 1950.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Manservant and Maidservant. Victor Gollancz, 1947.
“Introduction”. More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, translated by. Helen Waddell, Victor Gollancz, 1980, pp. 11-33.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
Farjeon, Eleanor. A Nursery in the Nineties. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. Reinventing Womanhood. Victor Gollancz, 1979.
James, P. D. “Moment of Power”. Ellery Queen’s Murder Menu, edited by Ellery Queen, Victor Gollancz, 1969.