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Speaking Likenesses, a series of didactic tales narrated by an aunt while her five nieces sew, and dedicated to CR 's mother , appeared in 1874. CR again used Macmillan , which paid her...

With All Star Cast, a novel of experimental structure involving an inset murder-mystery play, NRS switched her publisher for fiction from Gollancz to Macmillan .

ES published another school story, The Youngest Girl in the School, with illustrations by C. E. Brock ; it began her habit of publishing her children's books through Macmillan .

She most probably wrote this novel after the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919. It was published by Allen and Unwin (where Stanley Unwin was her personal friend) only after rejection by...

ES had personally admired Ayrton, but she found the writing of biography, especially the scientific research, an uphill struggle. In pursuing her material she corresponded with Marie Curie , to whom she dedicated the result...

During a break in her MA thesis-writing, in the early 1970s, CS experimented with a kind of a literary whodunnit. She sent it to several publishers (Oberon , Macmillan , and McClelland and Stewart

She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to...

She began work on this book as early as 1878. Her wish was to create a History of Appropriation and she confided to her journal: my ambition would be satisfied by a place in...

ES published The Song of the Cold with Macmillan in London: three long new poems, plus several selections from three recent volumes—Gold Coast Customs, Street Songs, and Green Song.

Macmillan had published a proof copy of the title poem in a previous collection entitled Poems, 1940-47 (1949).

MS began her career as a novelist in illness and under financial stress. In 1954, Macmillan , who were looking for promising new writers, invited her to write a novel. Although ill and unable to...

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...

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 print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel, and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.

In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham (who had sold some Penguin paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic...