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Publishing Ouida
In the early 1890s, she was informed by her publishers that her novels' sales were flagging; the financial repercussions are witnessed in the facts that in 1893 Ouida's mother was buried in a pauper's grave...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Macmillan nevertheless paid £400 for the book rights (as they did for several other of MO 's novels which had been serialised by journals other than their own).
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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They published the work in volume...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ published with Macmillan an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information for educational use.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
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Publishing Mary Angela Dickens
All the Year Round serialized several other of MAD 's novels. In A Valiant Ignorance, serialized between January and August 1893, she explores family dynamics, with a mother anxious about the consequences of her...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
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...
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, 1986.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
2151 (1869): 86
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
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Publishing Julia Frankau
As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF feared in 1911 that Methuen would...
Publishing Emmuska Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
Publishing Muriel Spark
MS received £100 for it, half as an advance.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...
Publishing May Laffan
She wanted to include her article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies in the volume, but her publishers rejected the idea.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
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Macmillan reprinted the volume twice, but it then went out of print until Garland Publishing
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.
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