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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...

The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father. Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...

CR 's earnings from her work remained very modest: in 1866 her income was well under £100. In 1874 it was under £40, and most of that came from investments rather than from writing. She...

The Poetry Bookshop printed 1,000 copies of the first edition of the collection, which took several years to sell out.

The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint. Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan

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...

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...

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).

The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel, and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.

For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's for F. S. Ellis . The print run was small at 250 copies.

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...

Von Arnim had published her first and most famous book just two years before this, and was now in a financial crisis. This little book was printed in London and New York by Macmillan and Co.

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...

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...

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