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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph McAleer |
| ISBN: | 0198204558 9780198204558 |
| OCLC Number: | 42004763 |
| Description: | xii, 322 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Look Back in Amusement -- I. Establishing the Imprint: The History. 1. Mr. Mills and Mr. Boon, 1908-1913. 2. The Bubble Nearly Bursts, 1914-1928. 3. A Boon Without Mills, 1929-1945. 4. Regrouping and Restructuring, 1946-1956. 5. The Paperback Revolution, 1957-1972 -- II. Romance and Responsibility: Editorial Policy. 6. The 1930s: A Genre is Born. 7. The 1940s: Flying the Flag. 8. The 1950s: Preserving the Legacy. 9. Women's Magazines: The Outside Editors. 10. The 1960s: Change and Experimentation. Afterword: The Global Company and its Product. |
| Responsibility: | Joseph McAleer. |
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McAleer sets his tone as earnest but not unamused. John Sutherland, TLS Passion's Fortune treads a nice line between readability and scholarship. Joseph McAleer has found a rich vein and mined it profitably to give us a good book about bad books. John Sutherland, TLS not only an unofficial history of English cultural fashion from the Great War to the death of Princess Diana, but also an absorbing and well researched account of a successful publisher as far removed from the self-regarding world of 'literary London' as it is possible to imagine ... exemplary study. Robert McCrum, The Observer 31/10/99 hugely entertaining history of the firm. D J Taylor, Guardian 6/11/99 a hefty and scrupulous footnoted historical volume detailing the every move of the publishing company during the first century of its existence. Deborah Orr, The Independent, 3/11/99 Read more...
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- Mills & Boon (Firm) -- History.
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- Romans.
- Populaire literatuur.
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