Hamish Miles

As a very young woman OM began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles (Edward Garnett 's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape , and editor of a little magazine). He was...

Hamish Miles , an editor of the magazine, became her lover and an important career influence. Though he rejected the novel manuscript she first submitted to him at Cape (and refused point-blank to introduce her...

Two others were printed a week later, and a sixth, Freddy, which signalled the appearance of a new voice, appeared on 11 January 1936. A reader for Jonathan Cape , Hamish Miles ...

Once Hamish Miles had added SS to Cape's list, Rupert Hart-Davis , a director of the firm, met her and became her friend. She told him Cape's advertising was generous and persuasive. But...

Edward Garnett , the reader for Cape , thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence 's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...

A holiday with Hamish Miles in Ireland, during which they visited Dublin, Galway, and the Aran Islands, was important for several of OM 's later books.