Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
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| Publishing | Mary Angela Dickens | All the Year Round serialized several other of MAD
's novels. In A Valiant Ignorance, serialized between January and August 1893, she explores family dynamics, with a mother anxious about the consequences of her... |
| Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
had personally admired Ayrton, but she found the writing of biography, especially the scientific research, an uphill struggle. In pursuing her material she corresponded with Marie Curie
, to whom she dedicated the result... |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | HM
's Biographical Sketches, reprinted from the Daily News, were published by Macmillan
. Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986. 214 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2151 (1869): 86 Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 358 |
| Publishing | Julia Frankau | As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes
to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF
feared in 1911 that Methuen
would... |
| Publishing | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | |
| Publishing | Rumer Godden | A Breath of Air by RG
was published by Michael Joseph
(to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan
) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis
but approbation... |
| Publishing | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of... |
| 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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 411 |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | |
| Publishing | May Laffan | She wanted to include her article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies in the volume, but her publishers rejected the idea. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 28 |
| Publishing | Naomi Royde-Smith | With All Star Cast, a novel of experimental structure involving an inset murder-mystery play, NRS
switched her publisher for fiction from Gollancz
to Macmillan
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1792 (6 June 1936): 477 |
| Publishing | Helen Mathers | In the year in which HM
's recent publisher, Bentley
was taken over by Macmillan
, she published this novel with Thomas Burleigh
. There was also a Tauchnitz
edition the same year. 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. |
| Publishing | Ethel Wilson | The interest in a film adaptation nonetheless proved profitable in the end, since it eventually led Macmillan, London
, to reconsider an English imprint of the novel. In September 1947, a contract was signed for... |
| Publishing | Rumer Godden | It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989. 69-70 |
| 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... |
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