Jonathan Cape

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...

Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...

STW was urged by Michael Howard of Jonathan Cape Publishers to write this biography, and accepted after a visit to White's home. Chatto and Windus also wanted to publish the book, which was eventually produced...

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...

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...

Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.

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. In the form in which it eventually...

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...

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.

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.

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 ).

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...

She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.Marie Belloc Lowndes , who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM that her...

SS published her third novel, The Holiday, with Chapman and Hall , after Jonathan Cape rejected it.

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...