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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published a second novel this year (and her fourth in all), entitled The Partnership; she was encouraged to write it by Victor Gollancz
. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 24 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 144 |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay. |
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 |