Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983.
2: 97-8
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Marsh | Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed... |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
worked as a journalist for the Ipswich Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Morning Post (where he was editor from 1867 to 1868). He served as literary critic for the Westminister... |
Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain... |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | Saunders and Otley
gave her £900 for the copyright of the first edition, on the express understanding that they would not interfere with the contents. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983. 2: 97-8 |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn
over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley
for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of... |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn
and then with Saunders and Otley
, Morgan got Thomas Moore
to sound out John Murray
about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life... |
Publishing | Caroline Norton | She had paid for her European holiday in the year before publication with the £300 that publishers Saunders and Otley
paid her for this book. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 98 |
Publishing | Frances Trollope | Both this and another of her novels, Charles Chesterfield; or, The Adventures of a Youth of Genius, were serialized between July 1840 and December 1841, the former with New Monthly Magazine and the latter... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | HM
set out in this book to judge American society, in its spirit and methods, by the American tests,—the Declaration of Independence, and the constitutions based upon its principles. It had become a practice so... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | Her introduction describes the circumstances of her plays' composition, and her experiences in getting them staged. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 82, 110 |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
's second silver-fork novel, The Two Friends, was published with Saunders and Otley
. OCLC WorldCat. |
Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
published anonymously, with Saunders and Otley
, the three-decker historical novel "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826. title-page |
Textual Production | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The novel was published in London by Saunders and Otley
. |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
's three-volume Retrospect of Western Travel, another book about the USA, was published by Saunders and Otley
. Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library, 1947. 128 |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | As early as 1824 MRM
was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 29 |