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She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from...

About twenty years after their spell of publishing MAB 's books for children to great acclaim, Macmillan , in the person of the son of her old friend Alexander Macmillan , rejected her 7,000-word manuscript...

A year later, in December 1895, when MK was back from her first West African trip, she resumed submitting manuscripts about her travels to Macmillan . They assigned Dr Henry Guillemard to be her...

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan . She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...

Viking published PM 's biography, Queen Elizabeth : A Life of the Queen Mother, after Macmillan , which had originally commissioned the book, refused it after all.

Macmillan published the first English edition 9 September 1949; a second edition followed in November 1952. Some chapters had previously appeared in the New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.

EH 's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus after Macmillan refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision.

ML began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan , which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley as her British publisher.

MC decided not to serialise Red Pottage, as she had her earlier novels. She insisted that to be fairly judged, the story must be read as a whole. This was her second novel...

She was astonished when in 1985 she found in a bookshop, in a copy of a Macmillan volume focussing on women writers, some of her own work. While Macmillan printed the extract from her with...

Around 1952, WM finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan , Chatto and Windus , and Hamish Hamilton , but all three rejected it. While...

Over the next two decades RW published several revised and updated versions of this work. In 1956 Pan Books (London) published a new edition of The Meaning of Treason in which West eliminated some discussion...

EH had travelled to Kenya in January 1933 for the purpose of research, staying with Glady at her eccentric household. She also worked in archives in England and interviewed Jan Smuts in South Africa...

This book was several times reissued both by its original publisher, Macmillan , and by Frederick Warne .