Jonathan Cape

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

LBL 's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape 's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The reader's report for Cape spoke of her extraordinary sense of humour and remarkable powers of characterization.

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...

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...

A revised edition was published by Jonathan Cape in 1928 under the title Lest Ye Die.

She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape (who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall 's...

In a letter to Philip LarkinBP wrote that she felt she had been treated very badly by Cape , but that she was also not altogether surprised. For one thing she knew that other...

SM 's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape .

The publishing of BP 's new books and reprinting of her previous ones were helped enormously by editors Alan Maclean and James Wright at Macmillan . They worked through the difficulties of dealing with Cape

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...