Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Publishing Josephine Tey
Macmillan of New York issued two omnibus volumes of JT 's detective fiction as part of their Murder Revisited Series. The first, Three by Tey (1947), includes Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair...
Publishing Alice Munro
For her short-story volume Who Do You Think You Are?, AM moved from McGraw-Hill Ryerson to Macmillan as her Canadian publisher.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
579, 5, 337ff
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Mary Anne Barker
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...
Publishing Muriel Spark
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...
Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
This book was three times reprinted by January 1942.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
prelims
Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
Virago commissioned this after accepting her previous novel,
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman.
170
But over the longer term her relationship with them worked out no more happily than that with Macmillan . She had not realised that being commissioned...
Publishing Alice Munro
Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
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...
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...
Reception Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...
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...
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 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
Reception Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mary Anne Barker , sailing from England to join her husband in Mauritius in early 1878, took a copy of The Cuckoo Clock which she had specially requested from her publisher, Macmillan .
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
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