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Anthologization | Lucille Iremonger | LI
's fiction and essays appeared in many publications, both collections and periodicals. She figured in British as well as Caribbean anthologies: in Adventure and Discovery for Boys and Girls (a series published by Jonathan Cape |
Anthologization | Lilian Bowes Lyon | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Olivia Manning | As a very young woman OM
began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles
(Edward Garnett
's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape
, and editor of a little magazine). He was... |
Friends, Associates | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post
and William Plomer
(who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape
). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith
(with whom she put herself on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning | Hamish Miles
, an editor of the magazine, became her lover and an important career influence. Though he rejected the novel manuscript she first submitted to him at Cape
(and refused point-blank to introduce her... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Edward Garnett
, the reader for Cape
, thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence
's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | The reader's report for Cape
spoke of her extraordinary sense of humour and remarkable powers of characterization. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 11 |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. H. Young | She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape
in... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Forster | MF
's next novel was written during the evenings while she worked as a teacher, which she found exhausting. It was, however, accepted by Jonathan Cape
in spring 1963. Its acceptance brought her a £150... |
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. 41 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice, Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988. 114 |
Publishing | Shena Mackay | Before Babies in Rhinestones appeared, SM
completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel. She submitted this, her first novel for over a... |
Publishing | George Orwell | |
Publishing | Barbara Pym | After years of rejections, BP
succeeded in publishing her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape
. The title has been said to be borrowed from Victorian author Thomas Haynes Bayly
, who... |
Publishing | Mary Butts | This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he... |