Katie Roche was written and performed while the new Irish Constitution was being drafted. The Constitution proclaimed that a woman can best support the state and the common good by her life within the home...
Anthologization
Naomi Royde-Smith
It was reprinted the same year by its publisher, Gollancz
, in an omnibus volume entitled Famous Novels of 1931, which also included works by L. A. G. Strong
, Helen Ashton
, and Francis Iles
.
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Anthologization
Teresa Deevy
Katie Roche reached print (along with Dodie Smith
's Call It a Day) in Famous Plays of 1935-6, issued in 1936 by Victor Gollancz
. In 1939 came her own Three Plays...
Literary responses
Betty Miller
Again St John Ervine
offered an exacting critique. Words intoxicate you . . . other women get decently drunk on gin but you must have lexicons and lexicons before you will consent to fall on...
Material Conditions of Writing
Doreen Wallace
DW
, in the midst of her own and her husband
's personal and practical struggle with the Tithe Laws, published with Victor Gollancz
a controlled but furious polemic entitled The Tithe War.
Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
3-8
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
62
Performance of text
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
's autobiographicalplayThe Years Between opened in Manchester; it played in London's West End in 1945, and was published by Gollancz
the same year.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
187, 189, 426
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
55: 145
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.
271
Its American publication, by Knopf
, preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan, 1988.
93
Publishing
Gwen Moffat
GM
changed her publisher from Hodder and Stoughton
to Gollancz
for Survival Count, subtitled a personal journey towards conservation.
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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.
84-5
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.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1973
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
147-8
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.
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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.
1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...
Writing climate item
1927
Victor Gollancz
established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
179
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
201
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
127
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
340
December 1927: Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan...
Building item
December 1927
Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan
died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz
. It became an immediate best-seller...
Early 1957: John Braine's novel Room at the Top was published...
Writing climate item
Early 1957
John Braine
's novel Room at the Top was published by Gollancz
after eight rejections, on the advice of Elizabeth Jenkins
in her capacity as publisher's reader.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
294
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Texts
Benson, Theodora. Concert Pitch. Victor Gollancz, 1934.
Benson, Theodora. Façade. Victor Gollancz, 1933.
Benson, Theodora et al. Foreigners. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Benson, Theodora et al. How to be Famous. Victor Gollancz, 1937.
Benson, Theodora et al. Muddling Through. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Benson, Theodora. Rehearsal for Death. Victor Gollancz, 1954.
Benson, Theodora, and Betty Askwith. Seven Basketfuls. Victor Gollancz, 1932.
Benson, Theodora. The Man from the Tunnel, and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz, 1950.
Benson, Theodora. The Undertaker’s Wife. Victor Gollancz, 1947.
Benson, Theodora. Which Way?. Victor Gollancz, 1931.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Editorial Materials”. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters, edited by Trudy Bliss, Victor Gollancz, 1950, p. various pages.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Look at All Those Roses. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Cat Jumps and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris. Victor Gollancz.
Bowen, Elizabeth. To the North. Victor Gollancz.
Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz, 1983.
Cannan, Joanna. Princes in the Land. Victor Gollancz, 1938.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz, 1950.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Manservant and Maidservant. Victor Gollancz, 1947.
“Introduction”. More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, translated by. Helen Waddell, Victor Gollancz, 1980, pp. 11-33.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
Farjeon, Eleanor. A Nursery in the Nineties. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. Reinventing Womanhood. Victor Gollancz, 1979.
James, P. D. “Moment of Power”. Ellery Queen’s Murder Menu, edited by Ellery Queen, Victor Gollancz, 1969.
