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The publishing of BP 's new books and reprinting of her previous ones were helped enormously by editors Alan Maclean and James Wright at Macmillan . They worked through the difficulties of dealing with Cape

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...

Both Cape and Chatto and Windus rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National...

FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.

Ouida was contracted by Macmillan to write her final novel, Helianthus.

Ouida and her maid were then reputedly placed in a dogcart and sent eighteen miles in the middle of the night from Sant'Alessio to Viareggio, where Ouida collapsed in the Hotel de Russie ...

In the early 1890s, she was informed by her publishers that her novels' sales were flagging; the financial repercussions are witnessed in the facts that in 1893 Ouida's mother was buried in a pauper's grave...

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...

MO published with Macmillan of LondonHester: A Story of Contemporary Life; it was also serialized in Blackwood's from April 1882 to May 1883.

Macmillan paid her £500 for this work in two volumes.

Macmillan nevertheless paid £400 for the book rights (as they did for several other of MO 's novels which had been serialised by journals other than their own). They published the work in volume...

In book form, incorporating another story, it came out around Christmas 1882 and reached a sales figure of sixteen thousand the following year. MO offered the original story to Macmillan under a promise of anonymity...

For her short-story volume Who Do You Think You Are?, AM moved from McGraw-Hill Ryerson to Macmillan as her Canadian publisher.

Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...

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...