Macmillan Publishers Limited

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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.
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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
MAB read proof of the book as...
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.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
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Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin.
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Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...
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.
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.
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp.
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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.
285
They published the work in volume...
Publishing Christina Rossetti
Speaking Likenesses, a series of didactic tales narrated by an aunt while her five nieces sew, and dedicated to CR 's mother , appeared in 1874. CR again used Macmillan , which paid her...
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.
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and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.
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.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press.
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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.
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