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Wealth and Poverty Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite her steady publication, Dinah Mulock was still short of money. Unable to procure better terms from Edward Chapman even after The Head of the Family (1851) sold well, she unsuccessfully applied for a job...
Textual Production Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF (as Mrs Henry Fawcett) published with MacmillanSome Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Some Eminent Women of Our Times. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO published with Macmillan of LondonHester: A Story of Contemporary Life; it was also serialized in Blackwood's from April 1882 to May 1883.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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 Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
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Textual Production Linda Villari
Macmillan published LV 's novel, again in the travel mode, In Change Unchanged, under the author's own name.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
28951 (25 May 1877): 4
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
EJ issued through Macmillan her first volume entitled Collected Poems 1967; it was reprinted in 1971.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3421 (21 September 1967): 840
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM published her next novel, They Who Question, anonymously through Macmillan .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's important translation of Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, the first into English, was published by Macmillan with an introduction by her.
The text is available, along with many other...
Textual Production Ethel Wilson
EW related a personal experience that prompted her to write this story: an image of a mother, father, and small daughter in Stanley Park, Vancouver. She said the family presented an image of health...
Textual Production Elizabeth Daryush
ED made a change of both publisher and title in issuing Poems through Macmillan of London: a selection from her volumes of verse since 1930, in the series Macmillan's Contemporary Poets.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
In book form, incorporating another story, it came out around Christmas 1882 and reached a sales figure of sixteen thousand the following year. MO offered the original story to Macmillan under a promise of anonymity...
Textual Production May Laffan
She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove , editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
EMD 's popular, witty series Diary of a Provincial Lady (already serialized in Time and Tide) was published by Macmillan in volume form. It was the first of four Provincial Lady fictions to appear...
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
WBY 's Collected Plays was published in 1934 by Macmillan in London. The same publishers issued an expanded edition of The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats in 1952. Recently, Collier Books issued The...
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ published with Macmillan a novel with autobiographical elements, entitled An Impossible Marriage.
Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne.
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3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...

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1 September 1832

The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.

February 1843: Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their...

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February 1843

Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their own publishing house in London.

December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...

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December 1865

Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig as its first editor, and Charles Reade 's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.

1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...

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1880

Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.

1 July 1891: The International Copyright Act, known as...

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1 July 1891

The International Copyright Act, known as the Chace Act, came into force in the United States to protect the copyrights of foreign authors and end the longstanding practice of producing pirated editions of popular British...

1898: The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and...

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1898

The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son , dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan .

1939: The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers...

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1939

The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers William Collins , Macmillan , Heinemann , and Hodder and Stoughton .

1961: The year afterDilys Laing's death, Macmillan...

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1961

The year afterDilys Laing 's death, Macmillan posthumously published her Poems From a Cage: New, Selected, and Translated Poems in its Macmillan Poets series.

August 1975: Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her...

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August 1975

Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her memoirs, entitled Letter from Reachfar.

1976: USA feminist Shere Hite published The Hite...

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1976

USA feminist Shere Hite published The Hite Report; academics queried her methodology and the conservative right loathed her findings, but many women welcomed them.

September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...

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September 1998

Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books , aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.

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