Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | Macmillan
paid her £500 for this work in two volumes. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 283 |
Publishing | Ethel Wilson | 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... |
Publishing | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
published with Macmillan
an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information
for educational use. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 77 Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 229 |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's
for F. S. Ellis
. The print run was small at 250 copies. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 385 |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | The book was compiled from letters which had previously appeared, vilely printed and not proof-read by the author or apparently by anyone else, in Evening Hours. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 239 |
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 | Muriel Spark | The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 8 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 208 Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin. flyleaf |
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp. 15 |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | Five months after publication, needing money to travel to Mauritius, MAB
had offers from two publishers, who wanted to issue cheap editions, to buy her copyrights. But conditions were attached to surplus existing stock, which... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel, Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 9 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 220 |
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. 214 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2151 (1869): 86 Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press. 358 |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | Macmillan
, which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW
requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 411 |
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