The work was published in adapted form as a novel in 1986 in Macmillan
's Pacesetters Series. BE
has written other plays produced on television, including Tanya, a Black Woman, for the BBC
Textual Production
Pamela Hansford Johnson
When reprinted by Macmillan
in 1954, it was accompanied by PHJ
's An Essay on the Future of Prose-Drama. By then it had been staged both by amateurs and professionally, and adapted for radio and television.
Textual Production
Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC
to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML
gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...
Textual Production
Buchi Emecheta
Another work BE
published this year was Naira Power, a novelette written mainly for Nigerian readers (in Macmillan
's Pacesetters Series). It is titled from the naira, the national currency of Nigeria.
Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991.
66
Textual Production
Gwen Moffat
Macmillan
published the first of two crime novels this year by Gwen Moffat
, Rage, which was followed in September by The Raptor Zone.
Linda Mazini (later LV
) published her first novel, In the Golden Shell: a Story of Palermo, with Macmillan and Company
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27570 (26 December 1872): 5
Textual Production
Rhoda Broughton
RB
followed Dear Faustina with The Game and the Candle, April 1899, another of her one-volume novels, and the first to appear from Macmillan
. It too had already been serialized in Temple Bar.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Textual Production
Gwen Moffat
Macmillan
published GM
's crime novel Veronica's Sisters: Miss Pink in New Mexico.
Macmillan
published LV
's novel, again in the travel mode, In Change Unchanged, under the author's own name.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
28951 (25 May 1877): 4
Textual Production
Margaret Kennedy
MK
's novel Troy Chimneys, was printed by Rinehart
in the U. S. before Macmillan
published it in Britain in 1953.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
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Wealth and Poverty
Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite her steady publication, Dinah Mulock was still short of money. Unable to procure better terms from Edward Chapman
even after The Head of the Family (1851) sold well, she unsuccessfully applied for a job...