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Another work BE published this year was Naira Power, a novelette written mainly for Nigerian readers (in Macmillan 's Pacesetters Series). It is titled from the naira, the national currency of Nigeria.

When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...

RF published at London and New York, with Macmillan and St Martin's Press , Cages, her first poetry collection though not her first publication.

ZF 's second novel, Down: An Explanation, written as an undergraduate and again published through Macmillan , was another brief, first-person coming-of-age story (male viewpoint this time).

Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan . She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...

She was astonished when in 1985 she found in a bookshop, in a copy of a Macmillan volume focussing on women writers, some of her own work. While Macmillan printed the extract from her with...

Having just had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan , she felt sure that Down (which she calls deeply influenced by Salinger 's Catcher in the Rye) was accepted because it was about young man, not a woman.

Virago commissioned this after accepting her previous novel, 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...

MGF (as Mrs Henry Fawcett) published with MacmillanSome Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches.

EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers. As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...

Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.

As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF feared in 1911 that Methuen would...

A Breath of Air by RG was published by Michael Joseph (to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan ) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis but approbation...

It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...

This novel also was written at Pollards in Buckinghamshire. RG consulted the Chairman and Clerk of London's Metropolitan Juvenile Courts , a police inspector of Bow Street , the Governors and Secretary of the...