Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Publishing Naomi Royde-Smith
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 .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1792 (6 June 1936): 477
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 Rumer Godden
A Breath of Air by RG was published by Michael Joseph (to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan ) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis but approbation...
Publishing Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner, later TO , was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer , founders of...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
Macmillan , which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
411
Publishing Muriel Spark
The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
8
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
208
Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin, 1964.
flyleaf
Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...
Publishing Christina Rossetti
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...
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, 1984, p. 240 pp.
158, 160
This was a large run for the Poetry Bookshop, which often printed only...
Publishing Ethel Wilson
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...
Publishing Rumer Godden
It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
69-70
It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Her husband, Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin , belonged to the Prussian Junker milieu, which condemned writing for money and did not believe women should publish. When she showed him the manuscript of this semi-autobiographical text...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
MAW conceived the idea for her next book shortly after publishing Robert Elsmere. In the wake of that stupendously successful novel, Macmillan offered an unprecedented £7,000 advance for the US rights to her next...
Publishing Rhoda Broughton
RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993.
105, 105n2
Publishing Muriel Spark
The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel,
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
220
Publishing Christina Rossetti
For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's for F. S. Ellis . The print run was small at 250 copies.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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