The link goes to a review of the book by Neil Gaiman at F&SF.
It was written in 1926 and Michael Swanwick indicates that the book is in the public domain. Apparently she never renewed the copyright, so perhaps I could post the text here.
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So thoroughly was Mirrlees forgotten that when, decades later, a friend recommended her book to him, Lin Carter, a lifelong fantasy reader, was astonished to learn of its existence. Carter was then editor of the Ballantine Fantasy line, second in importance to the development of modern fantasy only to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. After an unsuccessful (and probably perfunctory) attempt to locate Mirrlees, he published Lud-in-the-Mist in 1970 without her permission, since by the laws of the time, it was in the public domain. Though Mirrlees lived until 1978, there is no record that she ever learned her book had come back into print.
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/introduces/mirrlees.htm