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
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...
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
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...
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, p. v - xvi.
ix
Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM
that her...
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
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
Shortly after the publication of The Career of Katherine Bush, Duckworth
signed a contract with Jonathan Cape
to publish cheap editions of EG
's books. This contract greatly expanded her reading public, as well...
Publishing
Doris Lessing
Michael Joseph
had been her usual publisher in the 1950s and 60s. Her current hardback publisher, Jonathan Cape
, and her current paperback publisher, had rejected this novel when she submitted it under her pseudonym...
Publishing
Viola Meynell
VM
published with Cape
a novel, at first entitled Follow Thy Fair Sun, which she then revised and re-issued as Lovers in 1944 with Richards
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
153
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
281, 306
Publishing
Barbara Pym
She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from...
Publishing
Nadine Gordimer
NG
's novel A Guest of Honour appeared from Viking Press
in New York. The London edition followed next year from Cape
, who now succeeded to Gollancz
as Gordimer's English publisher.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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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.
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.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Master of the House. Jonathan Cape, 1932.