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Publishing Evelyn Sharp
ES had personally admired Ayrton, but she found the writing of biography, especially the scientific research, an uphill struggle. In pursuing her material she corresponded with Marie Curie , to whom she dedicated the result...
Publishing Margaret Laurence
She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart
Publishing Muriel Spark
Macmillan made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...
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 Elizabeth von Arnim
Her husband, Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin , belonged to the Prussian Junker milieu, which condemned writing for money and did not believe women should publish. When she showed him the manuscript of this semi-autobiographical text...
Publishing Margaret Kennedy
With this work, Kennedy switched publishing firms to that of Macmillan , with which she stayed for all her works after this.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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She dedicated this book to her daughter, Julia Davies (later Birley) .
Kennedy, Margaret. Lucy Carmichael. Macmillan.
prelims
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.
75
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 Muriel Spark
Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...
Publishing Mary Louisa Molesworth
Macmillan published MLM 's first book for children, Tell Me a Story, under the name of Ennis Graham, with illustrations by Walter Crane .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research.
135: 226, 229
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.
80-1
In 1908 it was published as a separate volume by Macmillan
Publishing Ouida
In the early 1890s, she was informed by her publishers that her novels' sales were flagging; the financial repercussions are witnessed in the facts that in 1893 Ouida's mother was buried in a pauper's grave...
Publishing Fanny Kingsley
FK composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several...
Publishing Rhoda Broughton
RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
105, 105n2
Publishing Emily Lawless
Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder , the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan the same year.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...

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