Victor Gollancz

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Publishing 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.
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Publishing George Orwell
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 ).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 George Orwell
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...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.
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.
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Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, p. vii - xviii.
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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...
Textual Features Betty Miller
BM had told Gollancz , back in 1935, that in this novel she was tackling the social and psychological conflicts of a Jew in the modern world.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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It is in fact the only one...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
Above All Nations was published, an anthology of acts of kindness and compassion between enemies in wartime, compiled by George Catlin , VB , and Sheila Hodges of Victor Gollancz .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM published the collectionThe Rendezvous and Other Stories, again with Gollancz .
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM began writing a satirical fiction, Rule Britannia, which was published by Gollancz later in the year as her final novel.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne.
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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
Victor Gollancz commissioned and published An Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents, a book of left-wing essays on politics and science edited by NM .
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
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Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS set her novel The Bridge (published with Gollancz ) partly in a country town called Flettens Ambo (which sounds as if it means both fleeting or inconstant) and partly in Avignon and the...

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