Jonathan Cape

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Publishing Deborah Levy
DL took a new direction with a dialogue poem An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell, published through Jonathan Cape with illustrations by Andrzej Borkowski .
And Other Stories Publishing. 2017, http://www.andotherstories.org/.
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape objected to the words poor bloody tarts
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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in a poem she had written for this volume; she dropped the poem. The book was reprinted in the Travellers' Library in 1931.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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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 Rose Macaulay
To produce this work RM conducted extensive research in both London and Lisbon (which she visited in 1943, able to go because it was a neutral country, but dogged by illness while she was there)...
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
Again Jonathan Cape made her alter two or three words.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
172
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 Cicely Hamilton
A revised edition was published by Jonathan Cape in 1928 under the title Lest Ye Die.
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.
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape (who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall 's...
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...
Publishing Shena Mackay
SM 's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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.
Hamilton, Ian, 1938 - 2001. “Bohemian Rhapsodist”. The Guardian, 10 July 1999, pp. Saturday Review 6 - 7.
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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 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...
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...

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Texts

Hall, Radclyffe. The Master of the House. Jonathan Cape, 1932.
Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Lilian Baylis. The Old Vic. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Dibelius, Wilhelm. England. Translator Hamilton, Mary Agnes, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Folly’s Handbook. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
Holtby, Winifred. Poor Caroline. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Holtby, Winifred. The Land of Green Ginger. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Housman, A. E. More Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. After Julius. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Mr Wrong. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Beautiful Visit. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Long View. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The Sea Change. Jonathan Cape, 1959.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, and Robert Aickman. We Are for the Dark. Jonathan Cape, 1951.
Innes, Kathleen E. The Bible as Literature. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Jones, Robert, 1934 -, and Oliver Marriott. Anatomy of a Merger: A History of G.E.C., A.E.I. and English Electric. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Kavan, Anna. Asylum Piece, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Lessing, Doris. Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Lessing, Doris. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Lessing, Doris. Shikasta. Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Lessing, Doris. The Fifth Child. Jonathan Cape, 1988.