Jonathan Cape

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Publishing George Orwell
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...
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 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 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 Angela Carter
Liz Calder , her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
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John Walsh , then a junior in Gollancz 's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
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...
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 Nancy Cunard
Gollancz and Cape rejected the manuscript, but Wishart and Co. agreed to publish at her expense.
Publishing Kathleen E. Innes
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...
Publishing Olivia Manning
She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, p. v - xvi.
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Marie Belloc Lowndes , who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM that her...
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 Elinor Glyn
Shortly after the publication of The Career of Katherine Bush, Duckworth signed a contract with Jonathan Cape to publish cheap editions of EG 's books. This contract greatly expanded her reading public, as well...
Publishing Doris Lessing
Michael Joseph had been her usual publisher in the 1950s and 60s. Her current hardback publisher, Jonathan Cape , and her current paperback publisher, had rejected this novel when she submitted it under her pseudonym...

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Texts

Lessing, Doris. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five. Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Lessing, Doris. The Sirian Experiments. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Lessing, Doris. The Story of a Non-Marrying Man. Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Lessing, Doris. The Summer Before the Dark. Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Lewis, Wyndham, and Naomi Mitchison. Beyond This Limit. Jonathan Cape, 1935.
Lubbock, Percy. Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Macaulay, Rose. They Went to Portugal. Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Manning, Olivia. The Wind Changes. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter. Jonathan Cape, 2010.
Miller, Lucasta. The Brontë Myth. Jonathan Cape, 2001.
Mitchison, Naomi. Barbarian Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Mitchison, Naomi. Black Sparta: Greek Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Mitchison, Naomi. Black Sparta: Greek Stories. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Mitchison, Naomi. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Jonathan Cape, 1925.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Bull Calves. Jonathan Cape, 1947.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Conquered. Jonathan Cape, 1923.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Conquered. Jonathan Cape, 1966.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Corn King and the Spring Queen. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Delicate Fire: Short Stories and Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Laburnum Branch. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Mitchison, Naomi, and Lewis Gielgud. The Price of Freedom, A Play in Three Acts. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Murry, John Middleton, and Anne Finch. “Introduction”. Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720, Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 3-20.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
Beauvoir, Simone de. “Translator’s Preface”. The Second Sex, translated by. H. M. Parshley, Jonathan Cape, 1953, pp. 7-11.
Pym, Barbara. A Glass of Blessings. Jonathan Cape, 1958.