Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | When Victor Gollancz
, John Strachey
, and Harold Laski
founded the Left Book Club
(for the distribution and discussion of radical texts on socialism, fascism, and war) AWE
was an early member. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148-9 Laity, Paul, editor. Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz. prelims |
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 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)... |
Employer | Evelyn Sharp | In 1929, feeling short of money, ES
investigated several paid jobs to supplement her journalism. She worked for a while as a publisher's reader for Victor Gollancz
. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 187 |
Anthologization | Maude Royden | MR
contributed two essays entitled The Woman's Movement of the Future and Modern Love to Victor Gollancz
's collection The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism. 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, pp. 128-46. title-page and prelims Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 177 |
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 | George Orwell | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Jessica
, the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as... |
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 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 |
Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Stalwarts of the Labour Party
(where NM
's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM
had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an... |
Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
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 Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, p. vii - xix. x |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | RM
also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle
, presided over by Dorothy
and Reeve Brooke
and later by Sylvia
and Robert Lynd
. These gatherings were attended by RM
's friends... |