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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.
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It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
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...
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 Rhoda Broughton
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).
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993.
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Publishing Muriel Spark
The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel,
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
220
Publishing Christina Rossetti
For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's for F. S. Ellis . The print run was small at 250 copies.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
385
Publishing Ethel Wilson
The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
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Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan
Publishing Rumer Godden
This novel also was written at Pollards in Buckinghamshire. RG consulted the Chairman and Clerk of London's Metropolitan Juvenile Courts , a police inspector of Bow Street , the Governors and Secretary of the...
Publishing Annie Keary
She found it a great relief to work at Early Egyptian History in the intervals of the melancholy occupation of nursing her mother. It was in connection with this book that she formed an enduring...
Publishing Muriel Spark
In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham (who had sold some Penguin paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic...
Publishing Margaret Laurence
She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart
Publishing Ruth Fainlight
RF published at London and New York, with Macmillan and St Martin's Press , Cages, her first poetry collection though not her first publication.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3354 (9 June 1966): 512
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The Poetry Archive. 2005, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do.
Publishing Christina Rossetti
Speaking Likenesses, a series of didactic tales narrated by an aunt while her five nieces sew, and dedicated to CR 's mother , appeared in 1874. CR again used Macmillan , which paid her...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
She rewrote the novel in some downtime after Wallace's heart attack in 1954. The revised version was chronologically straightforward and Ellen was no longer a writer. Another change in plot concerned Ellen's broken engagement. Instead...

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