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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...

During a break in her MA thesis-writing, in the early 1970s, CS experimented with a kind of a literary whodunnit. She sent it to several publishers (Oberon , Macmillan , and McClelland and Stewart

ES published another school story, The Youngest Girl in the School, with illustrations by C. E. Brock ; it began her habit of publishing her children's books through Macmillan .

As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan 's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani on its first appearance...

All the Year Round serialized several other of MAD 's novels. In A Valiant Ignorance, serialized between January and August 1893, she explores family dynamics, with a mother anxious about the consequences of her...

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...

Ouida was contracted by Macmillan to write her final novel, Helianthus.

She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to...

She found it a great relief to work at Early Egyptian History in the intervals of the melancholy occupation of nursing her mother. It was in connection with this book that she formed an enduring...

She most probably wrote this novel after the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919. It was published by Allen and Unwin (where Stanley Unwin was her personal friend) only after rejection by...

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

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...

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.

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...

She began work on this book as early as 1878. Her wish was to create a History of Appropriation and she confided to her journal: my ambition would be satisfied by a place in...