Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Publishing Augusta Gregory
The play was a reworking of a 1902 play by Yeats, Where There is Nothing, to which AG had contributed some dialogue.
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
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In 1908 it was published as a separate volume by Macmillan
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
About twenty years after their spell of publishing MAB 's books for children to great acclaim, Macmillan , in the person of the son of her old friend Alexander Macmillan , rejected her 7,000-word manuscript...
Publishing Fanny Kingsley
FK composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several...
Publishing Muriel Spark
As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan 's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani on its first appearance...
Publishing Emily Lawless
Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder , the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan 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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan .
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...
Publishing Mary Louisa Molesworth
As a not-very-successful writer of adult fiction, MLM was advised by a friend, Sir Noel Paton , to try writing for children. She later ascribed her first venture that way entirely to his suggestion: He...
Publishing Rebecca West
This first edition was subtitled Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme, while the English edition, published by Macmillan before November 1958, was subtitled A Study of the Interactions of Political and Religious Ideas in...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
Publishing Fanny Kingsley
FK dedicated the volume to all troubled souls, and to the dear memory of one who passed through the deep into eternal rest.
Kingsley, Charles. Out of the Deep. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1880, http://archive.org/details/outdeepwordsfor00kinggoog.
Dedication
After Macmillan and Co. 's first issue of simultaneous American and...
Publishing Mary Cholmondeley
MC decided not to serialise Red Pottage, as she had her earlier novels. She insisted that to be fairly judged, the story must be read as a whole.
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Crisp, Jane. Mary Cholmondeley, 1859-1925. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1981.
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This was her second novel...
Publishing Muriel Spark
Macmillan made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
She was astonished when in 1985 she found in a bookshop, in a copy of a Macmillan volume focussing on women writers, some of her own work. While Macmillan printed the extract from her with...
Publishing Rebecca West
Macmillan published the first English edition 9 September 1949; a second edition followed in November 1952.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
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Some chapters had previously appeared in the New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.
West, Rebecca. The Meaning of Treason. Viking, 1 Dec. 1947.
prelims
Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan (after reading by Alexander Macmillan and John Morley ), by Chapman and Hall (after reading by George Meredith

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