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completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel.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
He published the book with Gollancz
after it was rejected by Cape
and Faber
. He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...
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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...
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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...
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Barbara Pym
BP
's seventh novel, An Unsuitable Attachment, was refused by her usual publisher, Cape
. She was upset by this news, judging it all of a piece with what had been for her a...
Publishing
Angela Carter
Liz Calder
, her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
156
John Walsh
, then a junior in Gollancz
's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
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...
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Barbara Pym
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...
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...
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Olivia Manning
She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, p. v - xvi.
ix
Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM
that her...
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Kathleen E. Innes
This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape
. Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf
, who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors...
Publishing
Barbara Pym
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
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Texts
Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women. Jonathan Cape, 1952.
Pym, Barbara. Jane and Prudence. Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Pym, Barbara. Less Than Angels. Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Pym, Barbara. No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Rhys, Jean. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie. Jonathan Cape.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Anarchism Is Not Enough. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Contemporaries and Snobs. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Experts Are Puzzled. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Poems: A Joking Word. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Robertson, E. Arnot. ’Cullum.’. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Devices and Desires. Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Four Frightened People. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Ordinary Families. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Summer’s Lease. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Signpost. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Three Came Unarmed. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Smith, Stevie. A Good Time Was Had by All. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Smith, Stevie. Mother, What Is Man?. Jonathan Cape, 1942.
Smith, Stevie. Novel on Yellow Paper. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Smith, Stevie. Over the Frontier. Jonathan Cape, 1938.