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Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | About twenty years after their spell of publishing MAB
's books for children to great acclaim, Macmillan
, in the person of the son of her old friend Alexander Macmillan
, rejected her 7,000-word manuscript... |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
published with Macmillan
, in London and the USA, her single foray into fiction: Spring Comedies, a book of courtship stories. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 2273 (20 May 1871) 618-9 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 169 |
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 | 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 | 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 | Mary Anne Barker | This appeared not from Macmillan
as usual, but through William Hunt
, publisher of Evening Hours. Reprints have included a Tauchnitz
edition the year after first publication and New Zealand editions (issued at Christchurch... |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | The book was compiled from letters which had previously appeared, vilely printed and not proof-read by the author or apparently by anyone else, in Evening Hours. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 239 |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | Five months after publication, needing money to travel to Mauritius, MAB
had offers from two publishers, who wanted to issue cheap editions, to buy her copyrights. But conditions were attached to surplus existing stock, which... |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Barker | |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM
approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down... |
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