Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research, 1994.
135: 226, 229
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Publishing | Margaret Laurence | She had cut down her first draft, of nearly 700 pages in typescript, to 578 pages, and intended to cut it by another hundred. It was, however, accepted by all of her publishers: McClelland and Stewart |
Publishing | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Macmillan
published MLM
's first book for children, Tell Me a Story, under the name of Ennis Graham, with illustrations by Walter Crane
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Publishing | Augusta Gregory | |
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 | Josephine Tey | |
Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | With this work, Kennedy switched publishing firms to that of Macmillan
, with which she stayed for all her works after this. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 14 Kennedy, Margaret. Lucy Carmichael. Macmillan, 1951. prelims |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Macmillan
recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person... |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | |
Publishing | Mary Louisa Molesworth | As a not-very-successful writer of adult fiction, MLM
was advised by a friend, Sir Noel Paton
, to try writing for children. She later ascribed her first venture that way entirely to his suggestion: He... |
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 | 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 | Fanny Kingsley | FK
composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan
's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani
on its first appearance... |
Publishing | Emily Lawless | Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder
, the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | 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... |
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