Jonathan Cape

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.

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...

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.

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...

A revised edition was published by Jonathan Cape in 1928 under the title Lest Ye Die.

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...

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 .

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

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...

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...

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...