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Wealth and Poverty Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite her steady publication, Dinah Mulock was still short of money. Unable to procure better terms from Edward Chapman even after The Head of the Family (1851) sold well, she unsuccessfully applied for a job...
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
Macmillan published EH 's biography of Hugh, third Baron Delamere , unwisely
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
105
entitled White Man's Country.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
109
Textual Production Barbara Pym
Both Cape and Chatto and Windus rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...
Textual Production Mary Anne Barker
MAB published with Macmillan , in London and the USA, her single foray into fiction: Spring Comedies, a book of courtship stories.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
2273 (20 May 1871) 618-9
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
169
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS 's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan to Bodley Head .
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
16
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
15: 491
Textual Production Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR published with Macmillan her autobiography, This Was My World.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
5: 167 and n1
Textual Production May Laffan
Through Macmillan , ML published Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor, and Other Sketches, a volume collecting the four short stories she had published separately.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
170
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Chapters from an Unwritten Memoir by ATR appeared in Macmillan's Magazine; they were published in volume form as Chapters from Some Memoirs by Macmillan in 1894.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
xxvi
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 Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF (as Mrs Henry Fawcett) published with MacmillanSome Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Some Eminent Women of Our Times. Macmillan.
title-page
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO published with Macmillan of LondonHester: A Story of Contemporary Life; it was also serialized in Blackwood's from April 1882 to May 1883.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
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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
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
EJ issued through Macmillan her first volume entitled Collected Poems 1967; it was reprinted in 1971.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3421 (21 September 1967): 840
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM published her next novel, They Who Question, anonymously through Macmillan .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...

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1 September 1832

The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.

February 1843: Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their...

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February 1843

Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their own publishing house in London.

December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...

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December 1865

Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig as its first editor, and Charles Reade 's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.

1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...

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1880

Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.

1 July 1891: The International Copyright Act, known as...

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1 July 1891

The International Copyright Act, known as the Chace Act, came into force in the United States to protect the copyrights of foreign authors and end the longstanding practice of producing pirated editions of popular British...

1898: The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and...

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1898

The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son , dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan .

1939: The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers...

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1939

The Reprint Society was founded by the publishers William Collins , Macmillan , Heinemann , and Hodder and Stoughton .

1961: The year afterDilys Laing's death, Macmillan...

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1961

The year afterDilys Laing 's death, Macmillan posthumously published her Poems From a Cage: New, Selected, and Translated Poems in its Macmillan Poets series.

August 1975: Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her...

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August 1975

Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her memoirs, entitled Letter from Reachfar.

1976: USA feminist Shere Hite published The Hite...

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1976

USA feminist Shere Hite published The Hite Report; academics queried her methodology and the conservative right loathed her findings, but many women welcomed them.

September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...

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September 1998

Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books , aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.

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