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
Angela Carter
AC
's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...
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
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
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
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
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
Gollancz
sold two thousand copies and then let the edition go out of print, to ICB
's chagrin, and flatly refused to reprint. He was always parsimonious in his methods, producing books cheaply without style...
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.
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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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