Victor Gollancz

Standard Name: Gollancz, Victor

Connections

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Textual Production Naomi Jacob
NJ issued a bildungsroman, That Wild Lie—, in which Emmanuel Gollantz emigrates from Vienna and makes good in Victorian London. On his family firm she then centred a hugely successful series or saga...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
She cancelled her original contract with Macmillan out of concern that her pacifist and socialist convictions might prove problematic for this publisher. Testament of Experience was published with Victor Gollancz , himself a pacifist.
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB 's novel Daughters and Sons came out, her first book to be published by Victor GollanczVictor Gollancz .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
130
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
A selection from NM 's million-word war-time diary, edited by Dorothy Sheridan, was published by Victor Gollancz as Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945.
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press.
11
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4292 (5 July 1985): 746
Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
The play opened in Oxford and moved to London where it ran until August 1949. At first DDM referred to Lawrence as that silly bitch Gertie,
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
232
but she quickly became very fond and protective...
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
NM approached Victor Gollancz as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
177
and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...
Reception Elizabeth Jenkins
Miss Cartwright , EJ 's headmistress when she was eight, wrote to congratulate her but implicitly to warn her against writing for self-glorification.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
17
Reviews in general were excellent, as indicated by snippets quoted...
Reception Betty Miller
BM was understandably devastated by the rejection of Gollancz .
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, p. vii - xix.
vii
She had told a friend it would be not only her best novel to date but one of her publisher's best ever too.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, p. vii - xix.
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Reception Daphne Du Maurier
The success of the movie (Academy Award for Best Picture) made DDM one of the most sought-after writers of her day and solidified her connection with Hollywood, although she hated the film.She wrote to her...
Reception Naomi Mitchison
The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM
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...
Publishing Rumer Godden
It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
69-70
It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
Publishing George Orwell
In a remarkable act of faith in GO , publisher Victor Gollancz advanced him five hundred pounds to finance the writing of The Road to Wigan Pier, GO 's account of the lives of...
Publishing Phyllis Bentley
PB was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn 's then managing director, Victor Gollancz
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...

Timeline

1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...

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1927

Victor Gollancz established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.

5 September 1935: Michael Joseph Limited was registered under...

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5 September 1935

Michael Joseph Limited was registered under the directorship of Joseph , Norman Collins , and Victor Gollancz , who also provided space at his publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.

February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...

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February 1936

The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...

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17 February 1958

CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.

8 February 1967: Victor Gollancz died, and his publishing...

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8 February 1967

Victor Gollancz died, and his publishing firm was taken over by his daughter Livia .

Texts

Royden, Maude. “Modern Love”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, 1917, pp. 36-63.
Royden, Maude. “The Woman’s Movement of the Future”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, 1917, pp. 128-46.