Victor Gollancz

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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...
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
Publishing Catherine Carswell
She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
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She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...
Publishing George Orwell
GO published with Frederick Warburg (Gollancz having refused to take it) Homage to Catalonia, his book about the Spanish Civil War..
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.
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, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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Publishing Angela Carter
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...
Publishing Angela Carter
Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
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, 1977.
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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/.
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.
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Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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It is in fact the only one...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB 's novel Daughters and Sons came out, her first book to be published by Victor GollanczVictor Gollancz .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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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, 1992.
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Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
This pamphlet was issued by Victor Gollancz , and redistributed by the Ministry of Information in the form of shorter articles in local newspapers around the country.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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Textual Production George Orwell
Gollancz duly published the book in 1937, but while the publisher was delighted by Orwell's vivid and sympathetic reportage, he was alarmed about the probable reception of Orwell's enunciation of his political position as a...
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM published with Gollancz a travel book, Mucking Around: Five Continents Over Fifty Years.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
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Mitchison, Naomi. Mucking Around: Five Continents Over Fifty Years. Gollancz, 1981.
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Webb, W. L., and Isabella Banks. “Introduction and Notes”. The Manchester Man, Victor Gollancz, 1970, p. Various pages.