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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 | |
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. 77 Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 229 |
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. 214 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2151 (1869): 86 Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 358 |
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 | |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | |
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. 28 |
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 |
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