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Reception Amy Levy
Forty-three years after AL 's death, her elder sister suggested to Macmillan that they should publish a collection of Levy's stories: Her memory is still alive.
qtd. in
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
28
Reception Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...
Reception Sophia Jex-Blake
This book was well received by most American universities, as it represented them in a favourable light compared to the more segregated British ones. The publisher Macmillan thought highly enough of SJB 's work to...
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...
Residence Ouida
Ouida and her maid were then reputedly placed in a dogcart and sent eighteen miles in the middle of the night from Sant'Alessio to Viareggio, where Ouida collapsed in the Hotel de Russie ...
Residence Muriel Spark
After leaving the Poetry Society, MS moved to a lodging-house at 1 Vicarage Gate, off Church Street, Kensington, where she lived from 1949 to 1950. In the summer of 1950 she moved again...
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
TH dated his Late Lyrics and Earlier, with many other Verses, published this year with Macmillan .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press, 1954.
227
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, 1980, pp. 285-7.
293
In...
Textual Production Mary Anne Barker
MAB published with Macmillan , in London and the USA, her single foray into fiction: Spring Comedies, a book of courtship stories.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
2273 (20 May 1871) 618-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
169
Textual Production Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR published with Macmillan her autobiography, This Was My World.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 167 and n1
Textual Production Flora Annie Steel
Lâl, composed in Aberdeenshire, was rejected by several minor periodicals (to which Richard Gillies Hardy had suggested FAS should send it) but accepted at first sight by Mowbray Morris of Macmillan's Magazine (who...
Textual Production Mary Kingsley
Though Macmillan regularly urged Kingsley to publish this work, she changed her mind after her original approach, and refused to allow it to be printed. She wanted to be known for something serious and ambitious...
Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
RL first used something like this title for a short story, A Hut, A Sea-Grape Tree, which appeared in Macmillan 's annual Winter's Tales for 1956. She began to expand it soon after it was published.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
328-9
Textual Production Mary Wesley
One of Mary Wesley 's first two books (both for children) was published: The Sixth Seal (with Macmillan ). Speaking Terms (with Faber , illustrated by Sarah Garland ) appeared in October this year.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
203
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1970
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

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