MF
's next novel was written during the evenings while she worked as a teacher, which she found exhausting. It was, however, accepted by Jonathan Cape
in spring 1963. Its acceptance brought her a £150...
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.
156
John Walsh
, then a junior in Gollancz
's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
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...
Textual Production
Bryher
In 1925, Bryher published with Jonathan CapeA Picture Geography for Little Children, Part One: Asia.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
104
She had first developed a passion for the study of foreign cultures as a child, when she...
Textual Production
Anita Brookner
AB
issued another novel, of which the English edition by Jonathan Cape
was entitled A Family Romance.
LBL
's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape
's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.
Dowson says Best Poetry, but that title was not...
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.
Jonathan Cape
put out a handsome, small-size collected edition of EB
's titles so far.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September. Jonathan Cape.
prelims
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
The novel was published by Gollancz
, which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz
, who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel...
Publishing
Sybille Bedford
She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...
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...
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Texts
Smith, Stevie. Tender Only to One. Jonathan Cape, 1938.
Strachey, Ray. Marching On. Jonathan Cape, 1923.
Tennant, Emma. Girlitude. Jonathan Cape, 1999.
West, Rebecca. The Harsh Voice. Jonathan Cape, 1935.
West, Rebecca. The Strange Necessity. Jonathan Cape.
Wheeler, Sara. Too Close to the Sun: the life and times of Denys Finch Hatton. Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Whipple, Dorothy. Young Anne. Jonathan Cape, 1927, p. .
Brunton, Violet. Green Magic. Editor Wilson, Romer, Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Brunton, Violet. Silver Magic. Editor Wilson, Romer, Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Winterson, Jeanette. The PowerBook. Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Winterson, Jeanette. The World and Other Places. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Jonathan Cape, 2011.