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
.
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.
Anthologization
Teresa Deevy
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
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, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
55: 145
Publishing
George Orwell
GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams, 1977.
41
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
Angela Carter
Liz Calder
, her editor at Gollancz, had first suggested this she should write this kind of fiction.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
156
John Walsh
, then a junior in Gollancz
's publicity department, relates how he went overboard...
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
felt that Gollancz
and Doubleday
were not doing as much publicity for her as they once had, though she knew that by refusing to do television publicity she was not helping with sales and...
Publishing
George Orwell
He published the book with Gollancz
after it was rejected by Cape
and Faber
. He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Gollancz
published ICB
's novel Elders and Betters in an edition of three thousand copies; another three thousand followed, and sold out, by April.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
170-1
Publishing
Beatrice Webb
This was their last major work. In the original year of publication a separate, limited edition was printed for the subscribing members of the National Association of Local Government Officials
. A second edition published...
Publishing
George Orwell
Victor Gollancz
had rejected it for fear of libel actions, since its use of actual people and events was unmistakable.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett
She wrote it in secret and in autumn 1924 took her manuscript to the vanity publisher Heath Cranton
. She paid to print it. Her publisher deducted twenty percent, and she earned the balance of...
Publishing
Nadine Gordimer
NG
's novel A Guest of Honour appeared from Viking Press
in New York. The London edition followed next year from Cape
, who now succeeded to Gollancz
as Gordimer's English publisher.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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.
Timeline
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.
