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...
Publishing
Shena Mackay
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completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel.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
Barbara Pym
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...
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, 2009.
156
John Walsh
, then a junior in Gollancz
's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
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.
213-15
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...
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.
41
“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.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
330, 308
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. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.
Cooke, Rachel, and Stevie Smith. “Introduction”. Novel on Yellow Paper, Virago, 2015.
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...
Publishing
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
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, 1988, 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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Texts
Brookner, Anita. Latecomers. Jonathan Cape, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Lewis Percy. Jonathan Cape, 1989.
Brookner, Anita. Look at Me. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Brookner, Anita. Providence. Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Brookner, Anita. Visitors. Jonathan Cape, 1997.
Bryher. West. Jonathan Cape, 1925.
Carrington, Dora et al. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Carrington, Noel et al. “Carrington’s Early Life”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 501-5.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Couzyn, Jeni. Monkey’s Wedding. Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, 1948, pp. 11-16.
Duffy, Maureen. Capital. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
Dunn, Nell, and Adrian Henri. I Want. Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Dunn, Nell. Tear his Head off his Shoulders. Jonathan Cape, 1974.
Dunn, Nell. The Only Child. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Enright, Anne. Making Babies. Jonathan Cape, 2004.
Enright, Anne. The Forgotten Waltz. Jonathan Cape, 2011.
Enright, Anne. The Gathering. Jonathan Cape, 2007.
Enright, Anne. The Green Road. Jonathan Cape, 2015.
Enright, Anne. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Enright, Anne. The Wig My Father Wore. Jonathan Cape, 1995.
Enright, Anne. What Are You Like? Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Garnett, David et al. “Preface”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 9-13.
H. D. Heliodora, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1924.