Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM 's Biographical Sketches, reprinted from the Daily News, were published by Macmillan .
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press.
214
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2151 (1869): 86
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press.
358
Publishing Helen Mathers
In the year in which HM 's recent publisher, Bentley was taken over by Macmillan , she published this novel with Thomas Burleigh . There was also a Tauchnitz edition 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.
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The Poetry Bookshop printed 1,000 copies of the first edition of the collection, which took several years to sell out.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
158, 160
This was a large run for the Poetry Bookshop, which often printed only...
Textual Production Gwen Moffat
Macmillan published the first of two crime novels this year by Gwen Moffat , Rage, which was followed in September by The Raptor Zone.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Gwen Moffat
Macmillan published GM 's crime novel Veronica's Sisters: Miss Pink in New Mexico.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
135: 226, 229
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...
Reception Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mary Anne Barker , sailing from England to join her husband in Mauritius in early 1878, took a copy of The Cuckoo Clock which she had specially requested from her publisher, Macmillan .
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
248
Roger Lancelyn Green
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 Penelope Mortimer
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
26
Publishing Willa Muir
Around 1952, WM finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan , Chatto and Windus , and Hamish Hamilton , but all three rejected it. While...
Publishing Alice Munro
For her short-story volume Who Do You Think You Are?, AM moved from McGraw-Hill Ryerson to Macmillan as her Canadian publisher.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
579, 5, 337ff
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Alice Munro
Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO published with Macmillan of LondonHester: A Story of Contemporary Life; it was also serialized in Blackwood's from April 1882 to May 1883.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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.
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Macmillan paid her £500 for this work in two volumes.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
283

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