Victor Gollancz

When Victor Gollancz , John Strachey , and Harold Laski founded the Left Book Club (for the distribution and discussion of radical texts on socialism, fascism, and war) AWE was an early member.

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.

Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club , and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...

Along with Victor Gollancz and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror .

Rose Macaulay had brought ICB to Gollancz's notice. He was known for unconventional and forceful advertising. He sold Daughters and Sons to the US publisher W. W. Norton , though it was far outside their...

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...

In a remarkable act of faith in GO , publisher Victor Gollancz advanced him five hundred pounds to finance the writing of The Road to Wigan Pier, GO 's account of the lives of...

The death of Victor Gollancz , DDM 's publisher for more than thirty years, made a great change in her career, though she continued her association with his publishing house.

It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...

DDM left Heinemann to publish this book with Victor Gollancz (a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown , urged her to...

This was DDM 's third work for Victor Gollancz , fulfilling her first contract with him.

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. She dedicated this book to...

She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann , much to Victor Gollancz 's dismay.

As Elizabeth Jenkins told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe , but...

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