New York Times. New York Times Company.
(15 September 1894): 3
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | This quick release of an affordable edition left the big circulating library Mudie's
(who on 27 June had announced with W. H. Smith
a reduction in their standard payment for triple-deckers) with hundreds of expensive... |
Textual Production | Lucy Walford | LW
published The Matchmaker, which was notable, she said, as the last three-volume novel accepted by Mudie's Circulating Library
. New York Times. New York Times Company. (15 September 1894): 3 Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate. 268 |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
Textual Production | Sir Walter Scott | Fifty years before that, lengths and prices had been more various. Three-volume novels were already standard, but whereas The History of Lady Barton by Elizabeth Griffith
and The Old Maid by Ann Skinn
, both... |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | Mudie's Circulating Library
took 400 copies. MRM
was delighted that her book was so indulgently, so very warmly received. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 347 |
Reception | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty 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. |
Reception | Julia Kavanagh | In 1900 Mudie's Library
stocked all of JK
's novels, but not until after the mid twentieth century did scholars cease to see her works chiefly as domestic, ladylike, and safe. Those who do mention... |
Reception | George Eliot | This work drew her first published review in the Times, which was highly appreciative and noted that the fictions were now claimed by Mr. George Eliot—a name unknown to us. Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble. 61 |
Publishing | George Eliot | George Henry Lewes
persuaded Blackwood
to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Despard | The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare
's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD
's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by... |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
published her three-volume novel A Life for a Life anonymously, but her authorship was known. Mudie's Library
carried 2,500 copies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1658 (1859): 173-4 Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology |
Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Their circle of friends included the critic and historian George Lillie Craik
, Camilla Toulmin
, John Westland Marston
, Alexander Macmillan
(the publisher), Charles Edward Mudie
(founder of Mudie's Lending Library
), and the... |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
's work reached immense numbers of people. It was a staple of Mudie
's and other circulating libraries
. Her work was swiftly published in the US, and she had numerous titles (novels and... |
Publishing | Wilkie Collins | WC
held firm on the title of his novel entitled The New Magdalen when Charles Mudie
, proprietor of the influential circulating library, objected to it as indecorous; his objection laid the foundation for Collins's... |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | Benjamin Jowett
wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker
. Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman
. The book was reviewed widely—at times... |
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