Macmillan Publishers
international publishing company
Macmillan Publishers (Pan Macmillan in the UK and Macmillan Publishers in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, the firm soon established itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian-era children's literature, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894).
Former prime minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986.
Since 1999, Pan Macmillan and Macmillan Publishers have been wholly owned subsidiaries of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than 30 others.
History
Macmillan was founded in London by Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Daniel was for some time assistant to the bookseller Elijah Johnson in Cambridge, but entered the employ of Messrs Seeley in London in 1837. In 1843, he began business in Aldersgate Street, and in the same year, the two brothers purchased the business of Thomas Newby in Cambridge. A branch office was opened in 1858 in Henrietta Street, London, which led to a great extension of trade. These premises were surrendered for larger ones in Bedford Street, and in 1897, the buildings in St Martin's Lane were opened.
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