Schreiner began writing the book in South Africa in 1873, and continued to work on it while living in England. She returned to it often, but it never reached a stage where she considered...
Publishing
Evelyn Waugh
EW
published Decline and Fall, his first novel. Several sexually risqué passages were toned down at the request of his publishers, Chapman
, but he restored them in a second edition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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Publishing
Mary Butts
MB
' first book, a volume entitled Speed the Plough and Other Stories, was advertised by her publisher, Chapman and Hall
, with a kind of health warning to conventional buyers.
There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both...
Publishing
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
After her rejection by Pawling
, P. R.
said she should try another publisher. Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
liked her manuscript but judged it too outspoken because it mentioned corsets. He suggested another...
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...
Leisure and Society
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Alec Waugh
(son of Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
) recollected Sappho Dawson Scott as a gifted salon hostess in the early twentieth-century London literary scene. Of her Sunday afternoons at home at 125...
Friends, Associates
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Markus also speculates that Jane is the inspiration for the unhappily married character of Alice Bryant in Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters.
Markus, Julia. Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Angela Dickens
Elizabeth's father, Mary Angela's other grandfather, Frederick Mullet Evans, co-founded the printing firm Bradbury and Evans
, whose innovative use of a steam-driven rotary press brought it clients including the Illustrated London News and...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications
Anna Steele
AS
published her first novel, Gardenhurst, in three volumes with Chapman and Hall
, dedicated to her younger sister, Katherine O'Shea
(who had been married in January this year).
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(28 October 1867): 9
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Katharine O'Shea
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Texts
Mathers, Helen. Story of a Sin : A Novel. Chapman and Hall, 1882.
McDonnell, Michael J. F. A History of St. Paul’s School. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Moore, Edith Mary. The Spirit and the Law. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
Norton, Caroline. The Child of the Islands. Chapman and Hall, 1845.
Ouida, and Enrico Mazzanti. A Dog of Flanders. Chapman and Hall, 1872.
Ouida,. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Ouida,. Chandos. Chapman and Hall, 1866.
Ouida,. Folle-Farine. Chapman and Hall, 1871.
Ouida,. Idalia. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Ouida,. Pascarèl. Chapman and Hall, 1873.
Ouida,. Strathmore. Chapman and Hall, 1865.
Ouida,. Two Little Wooden Shoes. Chapman and Hall, 1874.
Ouida,. Under Two Flags. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Paston, George. A Writer of Books. Chapman and Hall, 1898.
Paston, George. The Career of Candida. Chapman and Hall, 1896.
Plumptre, C. E. Giordano Bruno. Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Chapman and Hall, 1883.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. The Roundabout. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. The Straight Road. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson, and Mabel Ince. Madcap Jane. Chapman and Hall, 1910.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson. Mrs. Noakes. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson. The Agony Column. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Shirreff, Emily. The Kinder-Garten. Chapman and Hall, 1876.
Shore, Arabella. Dante for Beginners. Chapman and Hall, 1886.
Skene, Felicia. Wayfaring Sketches Among the Greeks and Turks, and on the Shores of the Danube. Chapman and Hall, 1847.
