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This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

This enumeration by no means exhausts MM 's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine 's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault

This first edition was subtitled Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme, while the English edition, published by Macmillan before November 1958, was subtitled A Study of the Interactions of Political and Religious Ideas in...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

The publishing of BP 's new books and reprinting of her previous ones were helped enormously by editors Alan Maclean and James Wright at Macmillan . They worked through the difficulties of dealing with Cape

The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down...

Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan . She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...

Viking published PM 's biography, Queen Elizabeth : A Life of the Queen Mother, after Macmillan , which had originally commissioned the book, refused it after all.

Macmillan published the first English edition 9 September 1949; a second edition followed in November 1952. Some chapters had previously appeared in the New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.

She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from...

About twenty years after their spell of publishing MAB 's books for children to great acclaim, Macmillan , in the person of the son of her old friend Alexander Macmillan , rejected her 7,000-word manuscript...

A year later, in December 1895, when MK was back from her first West African trip, she resumed submitting manuscripts about her travels to Macmillan . They assigned Dr Henry Guillemard to be her...

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

MC decided not to serialise Red Pottage, as she had her earlier novels. She insisted that to be fairly judged, the story must be read as a whole. This was her second novel...

She was astonished when in 1985 she found in a bookshop, in a copy of a Macmillan volume focussing on women writers, some of her own work. While Macmillan printed the extract from her with...