Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Publishing | Willa Muir | Around 1952, WM
finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan
, Chatto and Windus
, and Hamish Hamilton
, but all three rejected it. While... |
Publishing | Rebecca West | |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus
after Macmillan
refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 135-6 |
Publishing | May Laffan | ML
began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan
, which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley
as her British publisher. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 50 |
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. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 178 |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | |
Publishing | Alice Munro | For her short-story volume Who Do You Think You Are?, AM
moved from McGraw-Hill Ryerson
to Macmillan
as her Canadian publisher. Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart. 579, 5, 337ff OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | |
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 | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. prelims |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | |
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... |
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