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Textual Production Augusta Webster
The original periodical publication ran from 17 October 1876 to 14 September 1878, and Macmillan agreed by 23 August 1878 to publish them in book form.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
172-3
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's important translation of Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, the first into English, was published by Macmillan with an introduction by her.
The text is available, along with many other...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Augusta Ward
Shortly before giving birth to her first child, MAW ambitiously proposed to write for Macmillan a primer of English poetry. However, when she took some draft material to Macmillan general editor John Richard Green ...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
Macmillan , which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
MAW conceived the idea for her next book shortly after publishing Robert Elsmere. In the wake of that stupendously successful novel, Macmillan offered an unprecedented £7,000 advance for the US rights to her next...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Her husband, Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin , belonged to the Prussian Junker milieu, which condemned writing for money and did not believe women should publish. When she showed him the manuscript of this semi-autobiographical text...
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
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...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged EA 's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian ); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...
Textual Production Linda Villari
Linda Mazini (later LV ) published her first novel, In the Golden Shell: a Story of Palermo, with Macmillan and Company .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27570 (26 December 1872): 5
Textual Production Linda Villari
Macmillan published LV 's novel, again in the travel mode, In Change Unchanged, under the author's own name.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
28951 (25 May 1877): 4
Publishing Josephine Tey
Macmillan of New York issued two omnibus volumes of JT 's detective fiction as part of their Murder Revisited Series. The first, Three by Tey (1947), includes Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair...
Literary responses Jemima Tautphoeus
JT 's fiction received mixed reviews during her life. A Mrs Marie Barrett-Lennard of Sevenoaks went to some trouble to locate copies of her books in the late 1920s, when one might have supposed her...
Literary responses Flora Annie Steel
Oddly, this work, set partly in London and partly in the Western Highlands of Scotland of her youth, received praise from Macmillan 's reader before its publication for its knowledge of London (where FAS had...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
Textual Production Flora Annie Steel
Lâl, composed in Aberdeenshire, was rejected by several minor periodicals (to which Richard Gillies Hardy had suggested FAS should send it) but accepted at first sight by Mowbray Morris of Macmillan's Magazine (who...

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