Jonathan Cape

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...

Naomi Mitchison praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed. Looking back in 1979 Mitchison characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...

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.

Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape 's offices, seizing both Cape and Pegasus Press editions of The Well.

Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England. Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...

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...

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...

WH 's third novel, The Land of Green Ginger, was published by Jonathan Cape .

The volume appeared as number four in Secker and Warburg 's Uniform Edition of Works by Colette.UT had met Colette for the first time on 19 October 1926, when she asked if she...

EHY 's novel The Vicar's Daughter appeared after revisions suggested by Edward Garnett , the reader for Jonathan Cape .

SS 's first collection of poetry, A Good Time Was Had by All, was published by Jonathan Cape , with her own spiky drawings.

Twenty-five years after her death, Alice Meynell : Prose and Poetry, Centenary Volume was published by Jonathan Cape , with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West .

After this her next novel, My Son's Story, 1990, marked a change of publisher, from Cape to Bloomsbury .

NM published with Jonathan Cape the novel she had worked on through the war years: she called it The Bull Calves.

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...