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"Head of the publishing side of the business": Ellen Elliott of the Macmillan Company of Canada.

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From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Date: 20060922
Author:Panofsky, Ruth

From 1905 to 1980, the Macmillan Company of Canada was a crucial catalyst in the shaping of Canada's literary heritage. Macmillan championed a group of leading Canadian authors including Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, Grey Owl, Hugh MacLennan, Adele Wiseman, and many others. The company also launched some of Canada's enduring classics, such as Frederick Philip Grove's In Search of Myself (1946), W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind (1947), and Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel (1954).

Ellen Elliott was secretary and director of Macmillan between 1937 and 1947 and helped manage ...

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