Victor Gollancz

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Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ published her first novel, entitled Virginia Water, through the recent but respected publishing house of Gollancz .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1452 (28 November 1929): 1000
Publishing 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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3472 (12 September 1968): 979
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
147-8
Publishing 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.
26
She dedicated this book to...
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
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.
17-18
She was first commissioned for...
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
The plan was that Gollancz would bring out the book, though this did not in the end happen.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press.
85
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
UKLG 's London publisher, Gollancz , released a posthumous volume of her previously published shorter prose writings, incorporating an earlier title as Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays.
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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.
80
Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz
Textual Production Betty Miller
Victor Gollancz published BM 's third novel (in as many years): Portrait of the Bride.
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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.
xi
Literary responses Betty Miller
Again St John Ervine offered an exacting critique. Words intoxicate you . . . other women get decently drunk on gin but you must have lexicons and lexicons before you will consent to fall on...
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.
xi
It is in fact the only one...
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.
82-3
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.
1982
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
184
Mitchison, Naomi. Mucking Around: Five Continents Over Fifty Years. Gollancz.
9
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM published with Victor Gollancz her third volume of autobiography, You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
183

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