The Hodder and Stoughton
reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC
replied defiantly...
Publishing
Ethel M. Dell
Her first acceptances came from romantic magazines. On the matter of business terms, however, she was hard-headed. She declined to publish with F. V. White and Co.
because I did not consider their terms sufficiently...
