Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan, 1988.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
In the early 1960s ICB
had a disastrous lunch with her publisher, Victor Gollancz
. (It was only the second time she had met him in person.) She asked him to put out a collected...
Publishing
Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
published another novel, which was entitled Honey since her publisher, Gollancz
, thought her choice of Venus and Adonis would not be understood by the general public.
Livia Gollancz
, who had taken over her father's publishing house
at his death in earky 1967, persuaded GM
that she should try writing crime fiction.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Lettice Cooper
Lettice Cooper
published National Provincial, an industrial novel that subsequently became one of her three texts reissued in 1968 to meet, said Gollancz
, popular demand.
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.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
She worked on this book during her year of exploring London after graduating from university, enthralled by the writing process more intensely than she was ever to be again.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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She dedicated this book to...
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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...
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
.
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.