Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
153
Jonathan Cape
Standard Name: Cape, Jonathan
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Publishing | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's landmark lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, was published by Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
after having been rejected by several other publishers. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 234-7, 240 |
| Publishing | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's The Well of Loneliness was reissued by Pegasus Press
, an English-language press based in Paris, after the Home Secretary suppressed Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
's first edition. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 247-8 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Jane Howard | The book was accepted by Jonathan Cape
. Mr Cape
had EJH
to lunch, made a pass at her, and suggested cutting the manuscript, but when she demurred said he would publish it as it... |
| Publishing | Naomi Mitchison | NM
says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like... |
| Publishing | Naomi Mitchison | She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape
(who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall
's... |
| Publishing | E. H. Young | Jonathan Cape
proved an ideal publisher for EHY
, who lacked confidence and found composition difficult. For the rest of her career he offered her unstinting support, affection, and admiration. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 311-12 |
| Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | She wrote in her diary about taking it to the post office and registering it for a shilling. She also recorded her mixed feelings: At one minute I feel it is quite good enough to... |
| Reception | Radclyffe Hall | Sir William Joynson-Hicks
, Home Secretary, wrote to order Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
to discontinue publication of RH
's The Well of Loneliness, calling it inherently obscene and gravely detrimental to the public interest. qtd. in Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 247 Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 395n10 |
| Reception | Radclyffe Hall | Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape
's offices, seizing both Cape
and Pegasus Press
editions of The Well. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 253 |
| Textual Production | Radclyffe Hall | Cape
had arranged for moulds of the type to be sent to Pegasus Press on the same day that Sir William Joynson-Hicks had ordered him to discontinue publication. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 247 |
| Textual Production | Dora Carrington | A selection of DC
's writings, titled Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, was edited by David Garnett
and published by Jonathan Cape
; it was an astonishing success, Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989. xv Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Timeline
1921: Jonathan Cape publishing house was founded...
Writing climate item
1921
Jonathan Cape
publishing house was founded in London by Jonathan Cape
and G. Wren Howard
, who had met through the Medici Society
.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
336
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
62
Texts
Cape, Jonathan. “The Legend of Mother India”. Times, p. 17.