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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 .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research, 1994.
135: 226, 229
Publishing Augusta Gregory
The play was a reworking of a 1902 play by Yeats, Where There is Nothing, to which AG had contributed some dialogue.
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
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In 1908 it was published as a separate volume by Macmillan
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
Macmillan of New York issued two omnibus volumes of JT 's detective fiction as part of their Murder Revisited Series. The first, Three by Tey (1947), includes Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair...
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.
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She dedicated this book to her daughter, Julia Davies (later Birley) .
Kennedy, Margaret. Lucy Carmichael. Macmillan, 1951.
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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
Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan .
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...
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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