“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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• Item ORO ID
• 8836
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0309-2445
• Extra Information
• The fully annotated correspondence is now available in Shafquat Towheed (ed.), "The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930" (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), ISBN: 0230008437.
• Keywords
• Macmillan and Co.; Edith Wharton; author/publisher relations; book history; transatlantic publishing; Anglo-American literary relations, 1900-1930; author contracts; copyright law.
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2005 not known
• Depositing User
• Shafquat Towheed