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Publishing Carol Shields
During a break in her MA thesis-writing, in the early 1970s, CS experimented with a kind of a literary whodunnit.She sent it to several publishers (Oberon , Macmillan , and McClelland and Stewart
Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
This book was three times reprinted by January 1942.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
prelims
Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
This too was published by Roberts in Boston and by Macmillan in London. The US edition had a dark green cover of modern design, with title and author's pseudonym enclosed in a gilded oval...
Publishing Frances Mary Peard
FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Alice Munro
Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
Harold Macmillan argued that readers would find EH 's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
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...
Publishing May Laffan
A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing reprinted...
Publishing Carol Shields
She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to...
Publishing W. B. Yeats
A second edition, substantially revised, came out with Macmillan in 1937. In the introduction to the revised edition Yeats explains in some detail the contribution to it of his wife Georgiana or George ; for...
Publishing Ouida
Ouida was contracted by Macmillan to write her final novel, Helianthus.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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Publishing May Laffan
A 1878 New York edition published by Henry Holt in its Leisure Hour Series made some changes to the text with reference to local tastes.
Laffan, May. The Honorable Miss Ferrard. Henry Holt, 1878.
front matter
Macmillan published a new edition in 1881, as...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
ES published another school story, The Youngest Girl in the School, with illustrations by C. E. Brock ; it began her habit of publishing her children's books through Macmillan .
Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-23.
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Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Macmillan paid her £500 for this work in two volumes.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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Publishing Nina Bawden
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...

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