LBL
's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape
's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.
Dowson says Best Poetry, but that title was not...
Anthologization
Lucille Iremonger
LI
's fiction and essays appeared in many publications, both collections and periodicals. She figured in British as well as Caribbean anthologies: in Adventure and Discovery for Boys and Girls (a series published by Jonathan Cape
Family and Intimate relationships
Olivia Manning
As a very young woman OM
began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles
(Edward Garnett
's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape
, and editor of a little magazine). He was...
Hamish Miles
, an editor of the magazine, became her lover and an important career influence. Though he rejected the novel manuscript she first submitted to him at Cape
(and refused point-blank to introduce her...
Literary responses
Dorothy Whipple
The reader's report for Cape
spoke of her extraordinary sense of humour and remarkable powers of characterization.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
11
Literary responses
Olivia Manning
Edward Garnett
, the reader for Cape
, thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence
's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...
Material Conditions of Writing
E. H. Young
She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape
in...
Material Conditions of Writing
Margaret Forster
MF
's next novel was written during the evenings while she worked as a teacher, which she found exhausting. It was, however, accepted by Jonathan Cape
in spring 1963. Its acceptance brought her a £150...
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
NM
originally headed the first part of this in manuscript Reel One. She said later it would make a smashing movie.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
162
She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape
, turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton
wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion.Constable
finally agreed...
Publishing
Radclyffe Hall
RH
's The Well of Loneliness was reissued by Pegasus Press
, an English-language press based in Paris, after the Home Secretary suppressed Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
's first edition.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
247-8
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
The novel was published by Gollancz
, which did well financially out of it. But Victor Gollancz
, who had commissioned it, apparently found Bowen intimidating. He did not refer at all to the novel...
Publishing
Deborah Levy
DL
switched publishers from Jonathan Cape
to Bloomsbury for her next novel, Billy and Girl.
DL
took a new direction with a dialogue poem An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell, published through Jonathan Cape
with illustrations by Andrzej Borkowski
.
And Other Stories Publishing. 2017, http://www.andotherstories.org/.
Timeline
1921: Jonathan Cape publishing house was founded...
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
336
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
62
1923: The Incredible Journey, a landmark novel...
Writing climate item
1923
The Incredible Journey, a landmark novel about Australian aboriginal women, was published by Catherine Martin
, as C. E. M. Martin, through Jonathan Cape
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
11 November 1929: Ernest Hemingway's war novel A Farewell to...
Writing climate item
11 November 1929
Ernest Hemingway
's war novel A Farewell to Arms, about an American soldier on the Italian front, was advertised by Jonathan Cape
as due to be published in London on Remembrance Day, six weeks...
Texts
Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Barker, Ernest, and Naomi Mitchison. “Preface”. The Conquered, Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translator Parshley, H. M., Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Bennett, Dorothy Cheston. Arnold Bennett: A Portrait done at Home. Jonathan Cape, 1935.
Bowen, Elizabeth. A Day in the Dark and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Demon Lover and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September. Collected Edition, Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. A Rough Walk Home, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian, and Cecil Day-Lewis. Collected Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. The Buried Stream. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Bowes Lyon, Lilian. The White Hare, and Other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Jonathan Cape, 1991.
Brookner, Anita. A Family Romance. Jonathan Cape, 1993.
Brookner, Anita. A Friend from England. Jonathan Cape, 1987.
Brookner, Anita. A Misalliance. Jonathan Cape, 1986.
Brookner, Anita. A Private View. Jonathan Cape, 1994.
Brookner, Anita. A Start in Life. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Brookner, Anita. Altered States. Jonathan Cape, 1996.
Brookner, Anita. Brief Lives. Jonathan Cape, 1990.
Brookner, Anita. Family and Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Brookner, Anita. Fraud. Jonathan Cape, 1992.
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac. Jonathan Cape, 1984.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Jonathan Cape, 1995.