Editing Some Tame Gazelle (section)

==Publication history==
Pym started to write ''Some Tame Gazelle'' in 1934, shortly after completing her studies at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]]. The novel was rejected by several publishers, including [[Jonathan Cape]] and [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Pym |first=Barbara |date=1984 |title=A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters (ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym) |location=New York |publisher=E.P. Dutton |page=56 |isbn=0525242341}}</ref> Cape expressed interest in Pym's writing, however, and encouraged her to make some alterations to the text and consider re-submitting.<ref>Pym 1984, p.60</ref> Pym's friend, the up-and-coming literary critic [[Robert Liddell]], provided detailed criticism of the novel to assist with edits.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Hazel |date=1990 |title=A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |page=57 |isbn=0525249370}}</ref>

[[World War II]] interrupted Pym's budding literary career, and she finally revised the novel to the point where it was accepted by Cape in 1950.<ref>Holt 1990, p.145</ref> The novel sold 3,544 copies in Great Britain by the end of the 1950s, which was not a bestselling figure but was reasonable for a debut novel.<ref>Holt 1990, p.194</ref> Among alternative titles that Pym considered were ''Some Sad Turtle''<ref>Pym 1984, p.52</ref> and ''The Well Tam'd Heart''.<ref>Holt 1990, p.57</ref>

The novel was first published in [[the United States]] by [[E.P. Dutton]] in 1983. In 2012, it was released as an audiobook by [[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]]. ''Some Tame Gazelle'' was published in [[Italy]] as ''Qualcuno da amare'' (Someone to love) and in [[France]] as ''Comme une gazelle apprivoisée'' (Like a tamed gazelle).