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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...

For her short-story volume Who Do You Think You Are?, AM moved from McGraw-Hill Ryerson to Macmillan as her Canadian publisher.

This title had been used by several other novelists. MW had written about Bolt under the title My Hero, in a series carried by the Independent. Her advance for this novel was £30,000...

EH had travelled to Kenya in January 1933 for the purpose of research, staying with Glady at her eccentric household. She also worked in archives in England and interviewed Jan Smuts in South Africa...

This appeared not from Macmillan as usual, but through William Hunt , publisher of Evening Hours. Reprints have included a Tauchnitz edition the year after first publication and New Zealand editions (issued at Christchurch...

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...

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...

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.

This too was published by Roberts in Boston and by Macmillan in London. The US edition had a dark green cover of modern design, with title and author's pseudonym enclosed in a gilded oval...

FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.

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...

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...

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...

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

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