Jonathan Cape

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Jane Austen
Back in England in 2007, David Lassman (director of the Austen Festival in Bath and a would-be novelist with a pile of rejection slips) mounted an experiment, submitting the openings of Austen novels, blind, to...
Reception Radclyffe Hall
Sir William Joynson-Hicks , Home Secretary, wrote to order Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape to discontinue publication of RH 's The Well of Loneliness, calling it inherently obscene and gravely detrimental to the public interest.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
247
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Reception Radclyffe Hall
Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape 's offices, seizing both Cape and Pegasus Press editions of The Well.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
253
Reception Stevie Smith
Naomi Mitchison praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
153-4
Looking back in 1979 Mitchison characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...
Reception Mary Webb
MW 's friend Caradoc Evans (who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own...
Reception Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, pp. 66-7.
66
Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
This fictionalises NM 's life at Carradale, including her dismissal from the Argyll County Council . She expresses her disillusionment with the Highlanders, and divides herself between two characters, a middle-aged woman doctor and...
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM published with Jonathan Cape the novel she had worked on through the war years: she called it The Bull Calves.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
119
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2360 (26 April 1947): 193
Textual Production Nadine Gordimer
After this her next novel, My Son's Story, 1990, marked a change of publisher, from Cape to Bloomsbury .
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (seventy-nine pieces) were published posthumously by Jonathan Cape .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL 's first novel (or novella) was Beautiful Mutants, published through Jonathan Cape , where she called her editor, Frances Coady , brilliant.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Blackwell
Chunn, Louise. “Deborah Levy interview”. Mslexia, No. 58, pp. 51-3.
52
Textual Production Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...
Textual Production Radclyffe Hall
RH published her sixth novel, The Master of the House, with Jonathan Cape .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
301
Textual Production Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's first volume of poetry, published like all the rest during her lifetime by Cape , was The White Hare, and Other Poems.
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.
Textual Production E. H. Young
EHY 's novel The Vicar's Daughter appeared after revisions suggested by Edward Garnett , the reader for Jonathan Cape .
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate.
187
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 309

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Texts

Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women. Jonathan Cape, 1952.
Pym, Barbara. Jane and Prudence. Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Pym, Barbara. Less Than Angels. Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Pym, Barbara. No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Rhys, Jean. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie. Jonathan Cape.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Anarchism Is Not Enough. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Contemporaries and Snobs. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Experts Are Puzzled. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Poems: A Joking Word. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Robertson, E. Arnot. ’Cullum.’. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Devices and Desires. Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Four Frightened People. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Ordinary Families. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Summer’s Lease. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Signpost. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Three Came Unarmed. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Smith, Stevie. A Good Time Was Had by All. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Smith, Stevie. Mother, What Is Man?. Jonathan Cape, 1942.
Smith, Stevie. Novel on Yellow Paper. Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Smith, Stevie. Over the Frontier. Jonathan Cape, 1938.