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Publishing | Barbara Pym | 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 |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | 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... |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | |
Publishing | Penelope Mortimer | 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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 |
Publishing | Rebecca West | Macmillan
published the first English edition 9 September 1949; a second edition followed in November 1952. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 14 West, Rebecca. The Meaning of Treason. Viking. prelims |
Publishing | Barbara Pym | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Kingsley | 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... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | 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. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 14 Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 15: 490 |
Publishing | Mary Cholmondeley | 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. Crisp, Jane. Mary Cholmondeley, 1859-1925. Department of English, University of Queensland. 11 |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | 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... |
Publishing | Willa Muir | Around 1952, WM
finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan
, Chatto and Windus
, and Hamish Hamilton
, but all three rejected it. While... |
Publishing | Rebecca West | |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus
after Macmillan
refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 135-6 |
Publishing | May Laffan | ML
began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan
, which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley
as her British publisher. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 50 |
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