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This book was several times reissued both by its original publisher, Macmillan , and by Frederick Warne .

She had corrected the proofs only a week before her suicide. When Macmillan rejected the collection, she took it to Fisher Unwin the very next day.

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...

Virago commissioned this after accepting her previous novel, But over the longer term her relationship with them worked out no more happily than that with Macmillan . She had not realised that being commissioned...

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...

The interest in a film adaptation nonetheless proved profitable in the end, since it eventually led Macmillan, London , to reconsider an English imprint of the novel. In September 1947, a contract was signed for...

Harold Macmillan argued that readers would find EH 's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...

This manuscript consisted of letters from the animals to an absent child mistress. It was thirteen years since Macmillan had last published any book by her. When they rejected a second book as well, about...

She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS considered...

This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...

MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...

This book was well received by most American universities, as it represented them in a favourable light compared to the more segregated British ones. The publisher Macmillan thought highly enough of SJB 's work to...

EA 's ex-husband, Francis , reacted to this book with rage and threatened to sue her for libel. In letters from his solicitors to Macmillan , he alleged that the insufferable husband portrayed in the...

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 .Roger Lancelyn Green

Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England. Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...