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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
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.
164
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.
28
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.
411
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
EA 's ex-husband, Francis , reacted to this book with rage and threatened to sue her for libel. In letters from his solicitors to Macmillan , he alleged that the insufferable husband portrayed in the...
Reception Frances Burney
FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Emily Lawless
Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library

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