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Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition, 1843-1970
About this book
For over one hundred and fifty 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 nineteenth 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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Macmillan Biographies, 1843–1965
- Macmillan Chronology, 1843–1970
- Introduction
- 1 ‘To You in Your Vast Business’: Some features of the quantitative history of Macmillan, 1843–91
- 2 From Parnassus to Grub Street: Matthew Arnold and the House of Macmillan
- 3 Thomas Hardy and the House of Macmillan: A comedy in chapters
- 4 Margaret Oliphant and Macmillan’s Magazine
- 5 Letters to Macmillan: an Addendum: Sir Samuel White Baker’s letters to Macmillan
- 6 ‘And Sacred is the Latest Word’: Macmillan and Tennyson’s ‘final’ text
- 7 Macmillan in India: A short account of the company’s trade with the sub-continent
- 8 Letters from America: The Bretts and the Macmillan Company of New York
- 9 W. B. Yeats on the Road to St Martin’s Street, 1900–17
- 10 A Risk-bearing Author: Maynard Keynes and his publishers
- 11 ‘Not a Tear or a Prayer in It’: Gwen Raverat’s illustrated edition of The Runaway
- 12 From Carroll to Crompton: The work of a children’s publisher
- 13 Macmillan: or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since
- Index