Back in England in 2007, David Lassman
(director of the Austen Festival in Bath and a would-be novelist with a pile of rejection slips) mounted an experiment, submitting the openings of Austen novels, blind, to...
Reception
Stevie Smith
Naomi Mitchison
praised this collection in a review for Time and Tide from which a friendship developed.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
153-4
Looking back in 1979 Mitchison
characterised Smith's style as witty, full of meaning, one-off from a packed...
Reception
Radclyffe Hall
Sir William Joynson-Hicks
, Home Secretary, wrote to order Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape
to discontinue publication of RH
's The Well of Loneliness, calling it inherently obscene and gravely detrimental to the public interest.
qtd. in
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
247
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
395n10
Reception
Radclyffe Hall
Police raided London booksellers and Jonathan Cape
's offices, seizing both Cape
and Pegasus Press
editions of The Well.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
253
Reception
Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, 21 Jan. 1977, pp. 66-7.
66
Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
Reception
Mary Webb
MW
's friend Caradoc Evans
(who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own...
Textual Features
Naomi Mitchison
This fictionalises NM
's life at Carradale, including her dismissal from the Argyll County Council
. She expresses her disillusionment with the Highlanders, and divides herself between two characters, a middle-aged woman doctor and...
Textual Production
Naomi Mitchison
NM
published with Jonathan Cape
the novel she had worked on through the war years: she called it The Bull Calves.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
After this her next novel, My Son's Story, 1990, marked a change of publisher, from Cape
to Bloomsbury
.
Textual Production
Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape
(as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR
had...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Bowen
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (seventy-nine pieces) were published posthumously by Jonathan Cape
.
Chunn, Louise. “Deborah Levy interview”. Mslexia, No. 58, June 2013, pp. 51-3.
52
Textual Production
Radclyffe Hall
RH
published her sixth novel, The Master of the House, with Jonathan Cape
.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
301
Textual Production
Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL
's first volume of poetry, published like all the rest during her lifetime by Cape
, was The White Hare, and Other Poems.
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.
Textual Production
Rebecca West
RW
published a collection of essays and reviews, The Strange Necessity, with Jonathan Cape
.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
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Texts
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
Beauvoir, Simone de. “Translator’s Preface”. The Second Sex, translated by. H. M. Parshley, Jonathan Cape, 1953, pp. 7-11.
Pym, Barbara. A Glass of Blessings. Jonathan Cape, 1958.
Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women. Jonathan Cape, 1952.
Pym, Barbara. Jane and Prudence. Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Pym, Barbara. Less Than Angels. Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Pym, Barbara. No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1950.
Pym, Barbara. Some Tame Gazelle. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Rhys, Jean. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie. 1st ed., Jonathan Cape.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. 1st ed., Jonathan Cape.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Anarchism Is Not Enough. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Contemporaries and Snobs. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura. Experts Are Puzzled. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Poems: A Joking Word. Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Robertson, E. Arnot. ’Cullum.’. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Devices and Desires. Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Four Frightened People. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Ordinary Families. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Summer’s Lease. Jonathan Cape, 1940.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Signpost. Jonathan Cape, 1943.
Robertson, E. Arnot. Three Came Unarmed. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Smith, Stevie. A Good Time Was Had by All. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
