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Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
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...
Publishing Fanny Kingsley
FK dedicated the volume to all troubled souls, and to the dear memory of one who passed through the deep into eternal rest.
Kingsley, Charles. Out of the Deep. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, http://archive.org/details/outdeepwordsfor00kinggoog.
Dedication
After Macmillan and Co. 's first issue of simultaneous American and...
Publishing Edith Sitwell
Macmillan had published a proof copy of the title poem in a previous collection entitled Poems, 1940-47 (1949).
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Ruth Fainlight
RF published at London and New York, with Macmillan and St Martin's Press , Cages, her first poetry collection though not her first publication.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3354 (9 June 1966): 512
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do.
Publishing Mary Wesley
This title had been used by several other novelists. MW had written about Bolt under the title My Hero, in a series carried by the Independent. Her advance for this novel was £30,000...
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
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
Publishing Barbara Pym
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
Publishing Enid Bagnold
The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
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...
Publishing Marianne Moore
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
Publishing Rebecca West
This first edition was subtitled Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme, while the English edition, published by Macmillan before November 1958, was subtitled A Study of the Interactions of Political and Religious Ideas in...
Publishing Barbara Pym
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...
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
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...
Publishing Mary Kingsley
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...
Publishing Muriel Spark
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.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
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