With the encouragement of MP Sir George Staunton
(to whom they dedicated the volume),
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
but unbeknownst to their parents, the sisters published it to support the family after their father
became ill and bedridden...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
MM
's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press
edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A dramatic version of Lady Audley's Secret was staged by Ruth Herbert
at the St James's Theatre
, where MEB
had recollections of being overstimulated as a child.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.
The Critical Review was unimpressed by this novel: a strange medley of romance, history, and novel, in which the scenery is changed with the pantomimical rapidity of Voltaire
's Candide. . . . aukwardly...
Literary responses
Dinah Mulock Craik
Reviewers of the Broadview
edition commented that Craik's original is fascinating, and credited it with confound[ing] the usual binaries and prejudices of the period.
Broadview Press. http://www.broadviewpress.com/.
Literary Setting
Edith Wharton
In The Custom of the Country (1913, issued in a scholarly edition by Broadview
in 2008), Undine Spragg, beautiful social climber and insatiable consumer, already has two entanglements in her unmentionable past at Apex City...
It is dedicated to prisoners, and not to suffrage or political prisoners only, but to those brought to jail by distress of circumstance, drunkenness, selfish action, cruelty, or madness.CL
urges them to remember...
Publishing
Sarah Scott
A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...
Publishing
Eliza Fenwick
The second edition or issue, later the same year from George Kearsley
of Fleet Street, seems to indicate that EF
was dissatisfied with the publishers she had first chosen.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford
had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM
had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny...
CS
had been writing this novel through the momentous revolutionary events in France; she was working on it in Brighton in November 1790 when Burke
's Reflections on the Revolution in France was published. She...
Publishing
Rhoda Broughton
It was revised, expanded, and then issued in two volumes by 20 April 1867 (several months before the earlier-written novel). It reached a second edition late that year. A scholarly edition by Pamela K. Gilbert
Timeline
About 1470: The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the...
Writing climate item
About 1470
The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the beliefs, proverbs, stories, medical and cookery recipes, and advice of medieval peasant women, is assigned to this date by its editors, Kathleen Garay
and Madeleine Jeay
.
Texts
Black, Joseph Laurence, editor. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Broadview Press, 2006.
Carlisle, Janice. “Introduction”. Factory Lives, edited by James R. Simmons, Broadview Press, 2007.
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., Broadview Press, 2003.
Costanzo, Angelo, editor. “Appendix A: Letters and Reviews”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 255-6.
Cross, Victoria. “Theodora. A Fragment”. A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the 1890s, edited by Carolyn Christensen Nelson, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 70-90.
Foster, Mrs E. M. “Introduction”. The Woman of Colour. A Tale, edited by Lyndon J. Dominique, Broadview Editions, Broadview Press, 2008, pp. 11-42.
Collins, Wilkie. “Appendices”. Heart and Science, edited by Steve Farmer, Broadview Press, 1996, pp. 329-79.
Frawley, Maria H., and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Life in the Sick-Room, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 11 - 31, 161.
Robinson, Mary. Walsingham, or, The Pupil of Nature. Editor Shaffer, Julie A., Broadview Press, 2003.
Sheridan, Frances. The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. Editors Hutner, Heidi and Nicole Garret, Broadview Press, 2011.
Yonge, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Clever Woman of the Family, edited by Clare Simmons, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 7-26.
Simmons, James R., editor. Factory Lives. Broadview Press, 2007.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.