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2 unusual facts about Jonathan Cape


Jonathan Cape

Cape was born in London on 15 November 1879, the youngest of the seven children of Jonathan Cape, a clerk from Ireby in what is now Cumbria, and his wife Caroline, née Page.

Samson Kambalu

His first book, The Jive Talker, was published in 2008 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Free Press in the USA.


After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is the debut novel by author Evie Wyld published in August 2009 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Pantheon Books in the US.

Kenya Mountain

The original book was published in 1929 by Jonathan Cape in London, and contains a preface by Dutton and an introduction by Hilaire Belloc.

Licence Renewed

Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint.

Tom Maschler

In his role as head of Jonathan Cape, he discovered and published many writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Ian McEwan and Bruce Chatwin, to whom he acted as an informal patron.

Virago Press

In 1982 Virago became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head, and Cape Group, but in 1987 Callil, Lennie Goodings, Ursula Owen, Alexandra Pringle, and Harriet Spicer put together a management buy-out from CVBC, then owned by Random House, USA.


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I Want What I Want

One of Brown's inspirations for the protagonist of his novel may have been English model April Ashley, whose autobiography, April Ashley's Odyssey (1982) (ISBN 0-224-01849-3), co-written by April Ashley and Duncan Fallowell and published in London by Jonathan Cape, recounts her experience after she was outed as a transsexual.

Ted Walker

It drew the attention of William Plomer, then poetry editor at Jonathan Cape and a powerful figure in the poetry world.

William Erskine Baker

In 1825 he went on to study at the East India Military College at Addiscombe near Croydon where his mathematical studies continued under the guidance of Jonathan Cape a tutor at the college who was also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.