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The interest in a film adaptation nonetheless proved profitable in the end, since it eventually led Macmillan, London , to reconsider an English imprint of the novel. In September 1947, a contract was signed for...

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...

This manuscript consisted of letters from the animals to an absent child mistress. It was thirteen years since Macmillan had last published any book by her. When they rejected a second book as well, about...

She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS considered...

The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint. Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan

She followed this in 1878 with The Bedroom and the Boudoir, also extracted from Evening Hours but issued not through William Hunt (which had antogonised her by sloppy production of the periodical during her...

A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing reprinted...

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.Macmillan published a new edition in 1881, as...

MS received £100 for it, half as an advance. She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...

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...

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...

Macmillan paid her £500 for this work in two volumes.

She rewrote the novel in some downtime after Wallace's heart attack in 1954. The revised version was chronologically straightforward and Ellen was no longer a writer. Another change in plot concerned Ellen's broken engagement. Instead...

CR 's earnings from her work remained very modest: in 1866 her income was well under £100. In 1874 it was under £40, and most of that came from investments rather than from writing. She...

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...