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Chapter 1: A Family Affair
 Macmillan was
founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the
Scottish Isle of Arran.
Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations,
publishing such great authors as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hughes, Lewis Carroll,
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells.
As the company evolved, the Macmillan family's vision continued to inspire
the publishing of major writers including WB Yeats, Sean O'Casey, John  Maynard
Keynes, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, Margaret Mitchell, C.P. Snow and Rumer
Godden.
However, the brothers’ publishing talents were not confined to
literature. Their vision led to the creation of enduring copyrights such as Nature
(1869), the renowned Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians (1877) and Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy
(1899).
Chapter2:
International Expansion
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