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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |