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Publishing Mary Anne Barker
This book was several times reissued both by its original publisher, Macmillan , and by Frederick Warne .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Amy Levy
She had corrected the proofs only a week before her suicide.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
When Macmillan rejected the collection, she took it to Fisher Unwin the very next day.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Publishing Josephine Tey
Macmillan of New York issued two omnibus volumes of JT 's detective fiction as part of their Murder Revisited Series. The first, Three by Tey (1947), includes Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair...
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
Virago commissioned this after accepting her previous novel,
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman.
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But over the longer term her relationship with them worked out no more happily than that with Macmillan . She had not realised that being commissioned...
Publishing Alice Munro
Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
The interest in a film adaptation nonetheless proved profitable in the end, since it eventually led Macmillan, London , to reconsider an English imprint of the novel. In September 1947, a contract was signed for...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
Harold Macmillan argued that readers would find EH 's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
This manuscript consisted of letters from the animals to an absent child mistress. It was thirteen years since Macmillan had last published any book by her. When they rejected a second book as well, about...
Publishing Muriel Spark
She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS considered...
Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
This book was three times reprinted by January 1942.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
prelims
Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
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Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
She followed this in 1878 with The Bedroom and the Boudoir, also extracted from Evening Hours but issued not through William Hunt (which had antogonised her by sloppy production of the periodical during her...
Publishing May Laffan
A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing reprinted...
Publishing Elaine Feinstein
EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
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As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Macmillan paid her £500 for this work in two volumes.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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