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, 2004.
Livia Gollancz
, who had taken over her father's publishing house
at his death in earky 1967, persuaded GM
that she should try writing crime fiction.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Elizabeth Jenkins
This was followed in later 1955 by Ten Fascinating Women (whose title, again, EJ
hated but whose text she very much enjoyed writing). She did not think highly of Sampson Low
as a publisher, but...
Publishing
Phyllis Bentley
PB
was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn
's then managing director, Victor Gollancz
With All Star Cast, a novel of experimental structure involving an inset murder-mystery play, NRS
switched her publisher for fiction from Gollancz
to Macmillan
.
EJ
had been interested in Queen Elizabeth since, when she was twelve, her father stood her just over half the cost of Mandell Creighton
's book about the queen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
UM
started writing an autobiography, then entitled Autobiography of a Black Girl, by the age of twenty-five.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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Living in London in 1935, she retitled the manuscript Autobiography of a Brown Girl. Victor Gollancz
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
Catherine Carswell
She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
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She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...
Publishing
George Orwell
GO
published with Frederick Warburg
(Gollancz
having refused to take it) Homage to Catalonia, his book about the Spanish Civil War..
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Betty Miller
BM
published Farewell Leicester Square with Robert Hall
six years after Victor Gollancz
(until then her chosen publisher) had turned it down on account of its sensitive subject-matter.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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Texts
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Brightness. Victor Gollancz, 1963.
Jones, E. B. C. Morning and Cloud. Victor Gollancz, 1931.
Laity, Paul, editor. Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz, 2001.
Lewis, John. The Left Book Club: An Historical Record. Victor Gollancz, 1970.
Macaulay, Rose. Personal Pleasures. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Miller, Betty. Portrait of the Bride. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Miller, Betty. Sunday. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
Miller, Betty. The Mere Living. Victor Gollancz, 1933.
Mitchison, Naomi, editor. An Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents. Victor Gollancz, 1932.
Mitchison, Naomi. Memoirs of a Spacewoman. Victor Gollancz, 1962.
Mitchison, Naomi. Naomi Mitchison’s Vienna Diary. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Victor Gollancz, 1938.
Reeves, Amber. The New Propaganda. Victor Gollancz, 1939.
Reeves, Amber. Worry in Women. Victor Gollancz, 1941.
Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz.
Sayers, Dorothy L. He That Should Come. Victor Gollancz, 1939.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Emperor Constantine. Victor Gollancz, 1951.
Shuttle, Penelope, and Peter Redgrove. The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman. Victor Gollancz, 1978.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
Tey, Josephine. Queen of Scots. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Victor Gollancz, 1933.
Tey, Josephine. The Laughing Woman. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Translator Waddell, Helen, Victor Gollancz, 1976.
More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Translator Waddell, Helen, Victor Gollancz, 1980.
Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz, 1934.