Once Hamish Miles
had added SS
to Cape's list, Rupert Hart-Davis
, a director of the firm, met her and became her friend.
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She told him Cape's advertising was generous and persuasive.
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But...
Reception
Brigid Brophy
In 1954 BB
was awarded the Cheltenham Festival
Prize for a first novel, consisting of a payment of fifty pounds. Her publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis
, had entered the book without her knowledge. She went to...