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Ouida was contracted by Macmillan to write her final novel, Helianthus.

She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to...

She found it a great relief to work at Early Egyptian History in the intervals of the melancholy occupation of nursing her mother. It was in connection with this book that she formed an enduring...

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...

As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan 's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani on its first appearance...

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...

Von Arnim had published her first and most famous book just two years before this, and was now in a financial crisis. This little book was printed in London and New York by Macmillan and Co.

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...

She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart

Macmillan made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...

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...

Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England. Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...

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

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 .Roger Lancelyn Green

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...