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MS received £100 for it, half as an advance. She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...

In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC , some of which were...

EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers. As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...

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

She rewrote the novel in some downtime after Wallace's heart attack in 1954. The revised version was chronologically straightforward and Ellen was no longer a writer. Another change in plot concerned Ellen's broken engagement. Instead...

CR 's earnings from her work remained very modest: in 1866 her income was well under £100. In 1874 it was under £40, and most of that came from investments rather than from writing. She...

The book was compiled from letters which had previously appeared, vilely printed and not proof-read by the author or apparently by anyone else, in Evening Hours.MAB read proof of the book as...

This was the last novel to appear before ML 's marriage (after which she reputedly gave up writing). Apart from Bentley 's edition, ML 's American publisher Henry Holt published or re-published it at New...

The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father. Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...

The book was reissued by Macmillan in London and New York in 1899 and by T. Nelson and Sons in 1908, in the Nelson's Library series. Almost all of SM 's books were reprinted in...

Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.

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...

FTJ published with Macmillan an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information for educational use.

For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's for F. S. Ellis . The print run was small at 250 copies.

Five months after publication, needing money to travel to Mauritius, MAB had offers from two publishers, who wanted to issue cheap editions, to buy her copyrights. But conditions were attached to surplus existing stock, which...