Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Publishing Kate Greenaway
Von Arnim had published her first and most famous book just two years before this, and was now in a financial crisis. This little book was printed in London and New York by Macmillan and Co.
Publishing Augusta Gregory
The play was a reworking of a 1902 play by Yeats, Where There is Nothing, to which AG had contributed some dialogue.
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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In 1908 it was published as a separate volume by Macmillan
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
TH dated his Late Lyrics and Earlier, with many other Verses, published this year with Macmillan .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan (after reading by Alexander Macmillan and John Morley ), by Chapman and Hall (after reading by George Meredith
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
Macmillan published EH 's biography of Hugh, third Baron Delamere , unwisely
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
105
entitled White Man's Country.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
109
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH 's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus after Macmillan refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH had travelled to Kenya in January 1933 for the purpose of research, staying with Glady at her eccentric household. She also worked in archives in England and interviewed Jan Smuts in South Africa...
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...
Friends, Associates Storm Jameson
The two women were friends through the 1930s and their relationship became increasingly intimate after the death of Winifred Holtby on 29 September 1935. Brittain stayed with Jameson and Chapman the night after Holtby died...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
EJ issued through Macmillan her first volume entitled Collected Poems 1967; it was reprinted in 1971.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3421 (21 September 1967): 840
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
77
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
229
Reception Sophia Jex-Blake
This book was well received by most American universities, as it represented them in a favourable light compared to the more segregated British ones. The publisher Macmillan thought highly enough of SJB 's work to...
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ published with Macmillan a novel with autobiographical elements, entitled An Impossible Marriage.
Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne.
195
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
When reprinted by Macmillan in 1954, it was accompanied by PHJ 's An Essay on the Future of Prose-Drama. By then it had been staged both by amateurs and professionally, and adapted for radio and television.

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