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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 Evelyn Sharp
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...
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. 1992–1998, 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 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.
qtd. in
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1980, p. 27 pp.
15
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 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, 1995.
285
They published the work in volume...
Publishing Mary Angela Dickens
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...
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 Harriet Martineau
HM 's Biographical Sketches, reprinted from the Daily News, were published by Macmillan .
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
214
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2151 (1869): 86
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
358
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 Emmuska Baroness Orczy
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...
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
EA 's ex-husband, Francis , reacted to this book with rage and threatened to sue her for libel. In letters from his solicitors to Macmillan , he alleged that the insufferable husband portrayed in the...
Reception Frances Burney
FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Emily Lawless
Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library

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