Jonathan Cape is a British publishing firm headquartered in London, founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard. It is now an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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Jonathan Cape in the late 1950s
Jonathan Cape's grave at St Peter's Church, Petersham
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First
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…children's authors such as Roald Dahl, Hugh Lofting and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence. After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In 1987 it was taken over by Random House. Its name…
Lawrence's birthplace, Gorphwysfa, in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire
The Lawrence family lived at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford from 1896 to 1921.
Leonard Woolley (left) and Lawrence at the excavation of Carchemish, c. 1912