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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
, Rose Macaulay
, Victor Gollancz
, Jonathan Cape
, and others formed the Civil Liberties Press Bureau
, to protest publicly against the banning of books and to criticise newspaper coverage of various social issues. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 153 |
politics | Valentine Ackland | With Warner, Ackland was a member of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
. Her connection with the Left Review brought her into contact with intellectuals such as Edgell Rickword
and his wife Johnnie |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Along with Victor Gollancz
and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | At the time of her death, Rathbone was working with Victor Gollancz
and others on sending food supplies to Germany, where people were suffering actual starvation through the extremely severe postwar winter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | Elizabeth Jenkins | She worked on this book during her year of exploring London after graduating from university, enthralled by the writing process more intensely than she was ever to be again. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 26 |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Rose Macaulay
had brought ICB
to Gollancz's notice. He was known for unconventional and forceful advertising. He sold Daughters and Sons to the US publisher W. W. Norton
, though it was far outside their... |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In the early 1960s ICB
had a disastrous lunch with her publisher, Victor Gollancz
. (It was only the second time she had met him in person.) She asked him to put out a collected... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | The death of Victor Gollancz
, DDM
's publisher for more than thirty years, made a great change in her career, though she continued her association with his publishing house. Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 360 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | This was DDM
's third work for Victor Gollancz
, fulfilling her first contract with him. Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 133 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay. |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 69-70 |
Publishing | George Orwell | |
Publishing | Theodora Benson | As Elizabeth Jenkins
told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe
, but... |
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