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, 1997.
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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, 21 Jan. 1977, pp. 66-7.
66
Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
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
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
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, 1979.
153-4
Looking back in 1979 Mitchison
characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...
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.
qtd. in
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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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
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, 1997.
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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
Shena Mackay
SM
followed her first two rapid successes with a third book, the novel, Old Crow, after an only marginally longer breathing-space and a switch of publishers (Deutsch
to Cape
).
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Textual Production
Rebecca West
RW
published a collection of essays and reviews, The Strange Necessity, with Jonathan Cape
.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
Cook, Marjorie Grant. “Follow my Leader”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1081, 5 Oct. 1922, p. 630.
630
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Textual Production
Anita Brookner
AB
issued another novel, of which the English edition by Jonathan Cape
was entitled A Family Romance.
RW
produced several introductions to novels by other writers, including Jonathan Cape
's editions of Kathleen Coyle
's Liv (1929), Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey (1932), and Sarah Orne Jewett
's The Only Rose and Other Tales (1937).
West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, 1977, pp. 761-6.
