Macmillan Publishers Limited

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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 Linda Villari
Linda Mazini (later LV ) published her first novel, In the Golden Shell: a Story of Palermo, with Macmillan and Company .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27570 (26 December 1872): 5
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Her husband, Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin , belonged to the Prussian Junker milieu, which condemned writing for money and did not believe women should publish. When she showed him the manuscript of this semi-autobiographical text...
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
EA 's ex-husband, Francis , reacted to this book with rage and threatened to sue her for libel. In letters from his solicitors to Macmillan , he alleged that the insufferable husband portrayed in the...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged EA 's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian ); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Augusta Ward
Shortly before giving birth to her first child, MAW ambitiously proposed to write for Macmillan a primer of English poetry. However, when she took some draft material to Macmillan general editor John Richard Green ...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
Macmillan , which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
411
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
MAW conceived the idea for her next book shortly after publishing Robert Elsmere. In the wake of that stupendously successful novel, Macmillan offered an unprecedented £7,000 advance for the US rights to her next...
Textual Production Augusta Webster
The year before her death, Macmillan published Selections from the Verse of Augusta Webster
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 Augusta Webster
The original periodical publication ran from 17 October 1876 to 14 September 1878, and Macmillan agreed by 23 August 1878 to publish them in book form.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
172-3
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
vii
Textual Production Mary Wesley
One of Mary Wesley 's first two books (both for children) was published: The Sixth Seal (with Macmillan ). Speaking Terms (with Faber , illustrated by Sarah Garland ) appeared in October this year.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus.
203
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1970
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Publishing Mary Wesley
Written slowly during years of depression following her second husband's death, this novel stems from a suicide plan which, in the hot summer of 1976, she remembered carefully working out years before: a hot day...
Publishing Mary Wesley
This title had been used by several other novelists. MW had written about Bolt under the title My Hero, in a series carried by the Independent. Her advance for this novel was £30,000...

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