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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 Richmal Crompton
In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC , some of which were...
Publishing Edith J. Simcox
She began work on this book as early as 1878.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.
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Her wish was to create a History of Appropriation and she confided to her journal: my ambition would be satisfied by a place in...
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, 1990.
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, 2000.
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Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
This book was three times reprinted by January 1942.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
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 Julia Constance Fletcher
This too was published by Roberts in Boston and by Macmillan in London. The US edition had a dark green cover of modern design, with title and author's pseudonym enclosed in a gilded oval...
Publishing Frances Mary Peard
FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 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
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, 2009.
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MAB read proof of the book as...
Publishing Muriel Spark
Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 490
Publishing Carol Shields
During a break in her MA thesis-writing, in the early 1970s, CS experimented with a kind of a literary whodunnit.She sent it to several publishers (Oberon , Macmillan , and McClelland and Stewart
Publishing Carol Shields
She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to...
Publishing W. B. Yeats
A second edition, substantially revised, came out with Macmillan in 1937. In the introduction to the revised edition Yeats explains in some detail the contribution to it of his wife Georgiana or George ; for...
Publishing Ouida
Ouida was contracted by Macmillan to write her final novel, Helianthus.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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