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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Lilian Bowes Lyon | |
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 |
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 | 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 | Dorothy Whipple | Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 22 |
Publishing | Deborah Levy | DL
took a new direction with a dialogue poem An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell, published through Jonathan Cape
with illustrations by Andrzej Borkowski
. And Other Stories Publishing. |
Publishing | Naomi Mitchison | Jonathan Cape
objected to the words poor bloody tarts Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 172 Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 171-2 |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | SS
's Novel on Yellow Paper was published by Jonathan Cape
after rejection by Chatto and Windus
; she had written it, she said, in ten weeks. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Barbera, Jack and William McBrienEditors , Vintage, 1983. 253, 256-7 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1806 (12 September 1936): 717 Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago, 2015. |
Publishing | E. H. Young | EHY
changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape
for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin
imprint. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, No. 3, pp. 303 - 31. 330, 308 |