Macmillan, Daniel and Alexander
- Macmillan, Daniel and Alexander
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born Sept. 13, 1813, Isle of Arran, Buteshire, Scot.
died June 27, 1857, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.
born Oct. 3, 1818, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scot.
died Jan. 26, 1896, London?
Scottish booksellers and publishers.
Apprenticed to a bookseller in Scotland at age 11, Daniel worked for London booksellers from 1837 to 1843. In 1843 he and his brother Alexander founded Macmillan & Co., a successful bookshop in Cambridge that began publishing textbooks in 1844 and novels in 1855. After Daniel's death, Alexander expanded the firm's list and founded
Macmillan's Magazine (1859–1907), a literary periodical, and
from 1869
Nature, still a leading scientific journal. He established offices abroad and published many important Victorian writers. Long led by Daniel's descendants, the company grew into one of the largest publishing firms in the world.
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