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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.

TH 's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan (after reading by Alexander Macmillan and John Morley ), by Chapman and Hall (after reading by George Meredith

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

Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...

This enumeration by no means exhausts MM 's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine 's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault

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...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

This manuscript consisted of letters from the animals to an absent child mistress. It was thirteen years since Macmillan had last published any book by her. When they rejected a second book as well, about...

This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

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...

Virago commissioned this after accepting her previous novel, But over the longer term her relationship with them worked out no more happily than that with Macmillan . She had not realised that being commissioned...

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

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.

She followed this in 1878 with The Bedroom and the Boudoir, also extracted from Evening Hours but issued not through William Hunt (which had antogonised her by sloppy production of the periodical during her...

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