Macmillan Publishers Limited

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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 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.
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and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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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.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press.
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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. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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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 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.
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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.
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Macmillan reprinted the volume twice, but it then went out of print until Garland Publishing
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 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.
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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 Rumer Godden
It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
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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 Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
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 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, pp. 3-23.
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Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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