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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
, Rose Macaulay
, Victor Gollancz
, Jonathan Cape
, and others formed the Civil Liberties Press Bureau
, to protest publicly against the banning of books and to criticise newspaper coverage of various social issues. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 153 |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Along with Victor Gollancz
and others, she also founded the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | At the time of her death, Rathbone was working with Victor Gollancz
and others on sending food supplies to Germany, where people were suffering actual starvation through the extremely severe postwar winter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 26 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | She decided to publish this collection with her original publisher, Heinemann
, much to Victor Gollancz
's dismay. |
Publishing | Theodora Benson | As Elizabeth Jenkins
told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe
, but... |
Publishing | Phyllis Bentley | PB
was delighted when The Spinner of the Years was accepted, as her previous novel-length composition, Hudley Pride, had been rejected by no fewer than sixteen publishers. Ernest Benn
's then managing director, Victor Gollancz |
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 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Rose Macaulay
had brought ICB
to Gollancz's notice. He was known for unconventional and forceful advertising. He sold Daughters and Sons to the US publisher W. W. Norton
, though it was far outside their... |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | 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 | George Orwell | |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989. 69-70 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | The death of Victor Gollancz
, DDM
's publisher for more than thirty years, made a great change in her career, though she continued her association with his publishing house. Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 360 |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to... |
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