Macmillan : a publishing tradition / edited by Elizabeth James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Elizabeth, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macmillan Publishers--History.

Macmillan Publishers.

Publishers and publishing--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

History.

Great Britain.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 273 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

For over 150 years, since its founding in 1843, Macmillan has been at the heart of British publishing. This collection of essays, representing recent research in the archives at the British library, examines the firms' astute business strategy during the 19th Century, its successful expansion into overseas markets in America and India, its complex and intriguing relations with authors such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Lord Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, and J.M. Keynes, with additional chapters on Macmillan Magazine and the work of a modern children's editor.

Contents:

1. 'To You in Your Vast Business' Some features of the quantitative history of Macmillan, 1843-91 / Simon Eliot 11

2. From Parnassus to Grub Street Matthew Arnold and the House of Macmillan / Bill Bell 52

3. Thomas Hardy and the House of Macmillan A comedy in chapters / Michael Millgate 70

4. Margaret Oliphant and Macmillan's Magazine / George Worth 83

5. Letters to Macmillan: an Addendum Sir Samuel White Baker's letters to Macmillan / Michael Bott 102

6. 'And Sacred is the Latest Word' Macmillan and Tennyson's 'final' text / Michael Millgate 131

7. Macmillan in India A short account of the company's trade with the sub-continent / Rimi B. Chatterjee 153

8. Letters from America The Bretts and the Macmillan Company of New York / Elizabeth James 170

9. W. B. Yeats on the Road to St Martin's Street, 1900-17 / Warwick Gould 192

10. A Risk-bearing Author Maynard Keynes and his publishers / D. E. Moggridge 218

11. 'Not a Tear or a Prayer in It' Gwen Raverat's illustrated edition of The Runaway / Frances Spalding 230

12. From Carroll to Crompton The work of a children's publisher / Michael Wace 242

13. Macmillan: or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since / Nicolas Barker 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

033373517X

OCLC:

48474182