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In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC , some of which were...

She began work on this book as early as 1878. Her wish was to create a History of Appropriation and she confided to her journal: my ambition would be satisfied by a place in...

She had corrected the proofs only a week before her suicide. When Macmillan rejected the collection, she took it to Fisher Unwin the very next day.

This too was published by Roberts in Boston and by Macmillan in London. The US edition had a dark green cover of modern design, with title and author's pseudonym enclosed in a gilded oval...

FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.

Her contract with Macmillan was to give her an advance of $25,000 and royalties on the hardback of 10% on the first 10,000 copies, then 15%, and on the paperback 8% on the first 40,000...

Harold Macmillan argued that readers would find EH 's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present...

The book was compiled from letters which had previously appeared, vilely printed and not proof-read by the author or apparently by anyone else, in Evening Hours.MAB read proof of the book as...

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

During a break in her MA thesis-writing, in the early 1970s, CS experimented with a kind of a literary whodunnit.She sent it to several publishers (Oberon , Macmillan , and McClelland and Stewart

This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...

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...

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...

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...

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...