Jonathan Cape

Connections

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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
LBL 's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape 's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.
Dowson says Best Poetry, but that title was not...
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.
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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 Barbara Pym
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.
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984.
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In the form in which it eventually...
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
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...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.
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.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
She submitted the manuscript to the Ouspensky Society , of which she was at the time a member, and they insisted on some insignificant cuts. She was finding she could not make a living on...
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, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
330, 308

Timeline

1921: Jonathan Cape publishing house was founded...

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1921

Jonathan Cape publishing house was founded in London by Jonathan Cape and G. Wren Howard , who had met through the Medici Society .
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1923: The Incredible Journey, a landmark novel...

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1923

The Incredible Journey, a landmark novel about Australian aboriginal women, was published by Catherine Martin , as C. E. M. Martin, through Jonathan Cape .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

11 November 1929: Ernest Hemingway's war novel A Farewell to...

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11 November 1929

Ernest Hemingway 's war novel A Farewell to Arms, about an American soldier on the Italian front, was advertised by Jonathan Cape as due to be published in London on Remembrance Day, six weeks...

Texts

Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Barker, Ernest, and Naomi Mitchison. “Preface”. The Conquered, Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translator Parshley, H. M., Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Bennett, Dorothy Cheston. Arnold Bennett: A Portrait done at Home. Jonathan Cape, 1935.
Bowen, Elizabeth. A Day in the Dark and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Demon Lover and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September. Collected Edition, Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. A Rough Walk Home, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian, and Cecil Day-Lewis. Collected Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. The Buried Stream. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. The White Hare, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Jonathan Cape, 1991.
Brookner, Anita. A Family Romance. Jonathan Cape, 1993.
Brookner, Anita. A Friend from England. Jonathan Cape, 1987.
Brookner, Anita. A Misalliance. Jonathan Cape, 1986.
Brookner, Anita. A Private View. Jonathan Cape, 1994.
Brookner, Anita. A Start in Life. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Brookner, Anita. Altered States. Jonathan Cape, 1996.
Brookner, Anita. Brief Lives. Jonathan Cape, 1990.
Brookner, Anita. Family and Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Brookner, Anita. Fraud. Jonathan Cape, 1992.
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac. Jonathan Cape, 1984.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Jonathan Cape, 1995.