Macmillan Publishers Limited

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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 May Laffan
A 1878 New York edition published by Henry Holt in its Leisure Hour Series made some changes to the text with reference to local tastes.
Laffan, May. The Honorable Miss Ferrard. Henry Holt.
front matter
Macmillan published a new edition in 1881, as...
Publishing Muriel Spark
MS received £100 for it, half as an advance.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...
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 Jessie Fothergill
Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp.
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Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Macmillan nevertheless paid £400 for the book rights (as they did for several other of MO 's novels which had been serialised by journals other than their own).
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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They published the work in volume...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ published with Macmillan an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information for educational use.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
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Publishing Christina Rossetti
For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's for F. S. Ellis . The print run was small at 250 copies.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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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.
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MAB read proof of the book as...
Publishing May Laffan
This was the last novel to appear before ML 's marriage (after which she reputedly gave up writing). Apart from Bentley 's edition, ML 's American publisher Henry Holt published or re-published it at New...
Publishing Muriel Spark
The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
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Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin.
flyleaf
Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
The book was reissued by Macmillan in London and New York in 1899 and by T. Nelson and Sons in 1908,
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
in the Nelson's Library series. Almost all of SM 's books were reprinted in...
Publishing Julia Frankau
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...
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 Christina Rossetti
Speaking Likenesses, a series of didactic tales narrated by an aunt while her five nieces sew, and dedicated to CR 's mother , appeared in 1874. CR again used Macmillan , which paid her...

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