Victor Gollancz

UM started writing an autobiography, then entitled Autobiography of a Black Girl, by the age of twenty-five. Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz

Victor Gollancz had rejected it for fear of libel actions, since its use of actual people and events was unmistakable.

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...

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.

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...

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...

Gollancz put out a new edition in 1969 with an introduction by Gillian Avery .

AC 's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...

Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...

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 .

DDM felt that Gollancz and Doubleday were not doing as much publicity for her as they once had, though she knew that by refusing to do television publicity she was not helping with sales and...

Gollancz published ICB 's novel Elders and Betters in an edition of three thousand copies; another three thousand followed, and sold out, by April.

NG 's novel A Guest of Honour appeared from Viking Press in New York. The London edition followed next year from Cape , who now succeeded to Gollancz as Gordimer's English publisher.

DLS 's final novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Busman's Honeymoon, was published first in the USA by Harcourt Brace ; its UK publication, by Gollancz , followed in June this year.

She wrote it in secret and in autumn 1924 took her manuscript to the vanity publisher Heath Cranton . She paid to print it. Her publisher deducted twenty percent, and she earned the balance of...