“An appreciative and grateful author”: Edith Wharton and the House of Macmillan

Towheed, Shafquat (2005). “An appreciative and grateful author”: Edith Wharton and the House of Macmillan. Publishing History, 58 pp. 43–77.

Abstract

This essay is the first piece of scholarship to examine the relationship between the expatriate American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and her chief British publisher, Macmillan and Co. Entirely original analysis draws extensively upon the author/publisher correspondence held in the Macmillan Archive in the British Library, and challenges existing readings of the firm's handling of women novelists in the period 1900-1930.

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