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...

Both Cape and Chatto and Windus rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...

Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...

STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...

This novel's initial rejection by Jonathan Cape in 1963 had marked the beginning of fourteen years in which BP could not find a publisher for her work. In the form in which it eventually...

The book was accepted by Jonathan Cape . Mr Cape had EJH to lunch, made a pass at her, and suggested cutting the manuscript, but when she demurred said he would publish it as it...

Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.