Four of these poems were reprinted in Popular Science Monthly at the request of LSB
's friend Herbert Spencer
, a social scientist renowned for developing the concept of social Darwinism. The original publisher of...
Textual Production
Emma Frances Brooke
EFB
published her first identified work, Milicent. A Poem, with C. Kegan Paul and Co.
under the pseudonym E. Fairfax Byrrne.
Anonymous,. “The Times Column of New Books and New Editions”. The Times, No. 30244, p. 12.
30244 (12 July 1881): 12
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Publishing
Mary Carpenter
MC
commemorated another friend and fellow activist with a biography: The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy, published by Trübner and Co.
at both London and Calcutta.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
131
Textual Production
Emily Gerard
EG
and her sister Dorothea
published the fourth and last of their collaborative novels, A Sensitive Plant (mostly written some years before), in three volumes, with Kegan Paul
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Augusta Gregory
The essay, her first published work, was motivated by her desire to raise Arabi's profile in Britain. Her husband, Sir William Gregory, almost prevented its publication. When she first sought his permission, he granted it...
Textual Production
A. E. Housman
He wrote most of these poems very rapidly in the first five months of 1895, originally planning to use the pseudonym Terence Hearsay. Macmillan
had rejected the book before Kegan Paul
accepted it. The...
Textual Production
Muriel Jaeger
MJ
published her first work of non-fictional prose, Sisyphus: or, The Limits of Psychology, in Kegan Paul
's series Today and To-morrow.
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Textual Production
Anna Kingsford
AK
published An Essay on the Admission of Women to the Parliamentary Franchise, under her pseudonym Ninon Kingsford. The essay appeared through Trübner and Co.
in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
British Periodicals. ProQuest, http://britishperiodicals.chadwyck.com/home.do.
3144 (2 May 1868): 280
Textual Production
Anna Kingsford
AK
's English translation of her thesis submitted for her medical degree, an argument for vegetarianism called The Perfect Way in Diet: A Treatise advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of our...
Textual Production
Fanny Kingsley
Almost two years after her husband's death, FK
released what amounts to her biography of him: Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, in two volumes bearing the imprint of Henry S. King and Co
Publishing
Fanny Kingsley
FK
composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several...
The reviewer for the Victoria Magazine called the author a gifted lady
Lewis, Sarah. Sappho. Trübner.
133
and praised the way in which the play brings out into deep relief the terrible nature and punishment of crime, and the...
Reception
Hannah Lynch
The Saturday Review called the book a fascinating study of child life . . . marked by originality, humour, and pathos.The Observer called it distinctly interesting and full of excellences.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
35824 (9 May 1899): 14
Timeline
16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...