Victor Gollancz

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. She was first commissioned for...

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...

GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).

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

Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.

He published the book with Gollancz after it was rejected by Cape and Faber . He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...

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...