SS
's first collection of poetry, A Good Time Was Had by All, was published by Jonathan Cape
, with her own spiky drawings.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
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Textual Production
Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape
(as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR
had...
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Her previous publisher, Jonathan Cape
, turned it down for fear of a libel suit from Ford. For the same reason, Chatto and Windus insisted that the title Quartet, which Rhys preferred, be changed...
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape
, turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton
wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion. Constable
finally agreed...
Publishing
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...
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
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...
Reception
Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, pp. 66-7.
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Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
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
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
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...
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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.