Victor Gollancz

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
With this book ICB 's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz was to reprint her earlier titles.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Its American publication, by Knopf , preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Publishing Josephine Tey
The play was published that year by Victor Gollancz in London and by Little, Brown in Boston.
Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown, 1934.
prelims
Samuel French , Longmans , Penguin , and Pan all published editions of it between 1935 and 1966.
Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan, 1988.
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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 Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's final novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Busman's Honeymoon, was published first in the USA by Harcourt Brace ; its UK publication, by Gollancz , followed in June this year.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
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Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ published another novel, which was entitled Honey since her publisher, Gollancz , thought her choice of Venus and Adonis would not be understood by the general public.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3472 (12 September 1968): 979
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1973
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
Publishing Gwen Moffat
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 Lettice Cooper
Lettice Cooper published National Provincial, an industrial novel that subsequently became one of her three texts reissued in 1968 to meet, said Gollancz , popular demand.
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 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, 2004.
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She dedicated this book to...
Textual Features Betty Miller
BM had told Gollancz , back in 1935, that in this novel she was tackling the social and psychological conflicts of a Jew in the modern world.
qtd. in
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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It is in fact the only one...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
This novel was published by Victor Gollancz , as were her later titles.
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS set her novel The Bridge (published with Gollancz ) partly in a country town called Flettens Ambo (which sounds as if it means both fleeting or inconstant) and partly in Avignon and the...
Textual Production Eavan Boland
EB published with Victor GollanczThe War Horse: Poems, her second volume of poetry.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
EB published with Gollancz a new collection, The Cat Jumps and Other Stories.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas, 1981.
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Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
The plan was that Gollancz would bring out the book, though this did not in the end happen.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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Texts

Webb, W. L., and Isabella Banks. “Introduction and Notes”. The Manchester Man, Victor Gollancz, 1970, p. Various pages.