Jonathan Cape

She dedicated this book to My Lover: she thanks both H. T. Wade Gery and her husband (identified by their initials) for talking through her subject with her. She finished the manuscript at...

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...

RH 's The Well of Loneliness was reissued by Pegasus Press , an English-language press based in Paris, after the Home Secretary suppressed Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape 's first edition.

The novel was published by Gollancz , which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz , who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel...

DL switched publishers from Jonathan Cape to Bloomsbury for her next novel, Billy and Girl.

NM originally headed the first part of this in manuscript Reel One. She said later it would make a smashing movie. She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...

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...

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 .

She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie. She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...

Jonathan Cape objected to the words poor bloody tarts in a poem she had written for this volume; she dropped the poem. The book was reprinted in the Travellers' Library in 1931.

After years of rejections, BP succeeded in publishing her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape .

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)...

Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...

Again Jonathan Cape made her alter two or three words.

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...