Macmillan Publishers Limited

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...

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...

MAB published with Macmillan , in London and the USA, her single foray into fiction: Spring Comedies, a book of courtship stories.

This book was several times reissued both by its original publisher, Macmillan , and by Frederick Warne .

This manuscript consisted of letters from the animals to an absent child mistress. It was thirteen years since Macmillan had last published any book by her. When they rejected a second book as well, about...

She followed this in 1878 with The Bedroom and the Boudoir, also extracted from Evening Hours but issued not through William Hunt (which had antogonised her by sloppy production of the periodical during her...

This appeared not from Macmillan as usual, but through William Hunt , publisher of Evening Hours. Reprints have included a Tauchnitz edition the year after first publication and New Zealand editions (issued at Christchurch...

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.MAB read proof of the book as...

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...

While she was in MauritiusMAB proposed to Macmillan writing a book about clothes for travelling, but nothing came of this idea.

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...

SB 's first novel, I Pose, was published by Macmillan and Company , who also published the novels of her aunt Mary Cholmondeley .

She cancelled her original contract with Macmillan out of concern that her pacifist and socialist convictions might prove problematic for this publisher. Testament of Experience was published with Victor Gollancz , himself a pacifist.

RB published with Macmillan her first novel of the new century, Foes in Law.

RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).