The project was originally initatied and envisioned by publishers Chapman and Hall
as text to accompany a showcase of engravings by Robert Seymour
, a popular illustrator. On Seymour's suicide shortly after publication began, Dickens...
Textual Production
Mary Angela Dickens
All the Year Round published MAD
's best-known novel, Cross Currents, in serial form. Chapman and Hall
issued the novel in three volumes during the same year.
Bassett, Troy J. “Title Information at the Circulating Library”. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901.
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...
Textual Production
May Crommelin
In addition to joining the crowd of authors of Fenella, and twice producing novels in more ordinary paired collaborations, MC
joined with her sister Caroline Shaw
to produce a chapter on Furniture and Decoration...
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.
141
Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
Textual Production
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Many, including Charles Dickens
, have speculated that JWC
could have produced wonderful novels, and because she did not she is often viewed as something of a missing woman writer
Christianson, Aileen. “Rewriting Herself: Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Letters”. Scotlands: The International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Culture, Vol.
2
, No. 1, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 47-52.
47
despite her enormous output...
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.
Speed the Plough...
Publishing
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The English Chapman and Hall
edition cost 12s, the United States edition from C. S. Francis
, for which he paid the author $100, was $1.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan.
106
Textual Production
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A new two-volume edition of EBB
's Poems was published by Chapman and Hall
.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1205 (30 November 1850): 1242-4
Publishing
Isa Blagden
Isa Blagden
's second novel in volume form, The Cost of a Secret, was published in London by Chapman & Hall
.
Blagden, Isa. The Cost of a Secret. Chapman and Hall.
title-page
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1859 (13 June 1863): 776
Textual Production
Isa Blagden
The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Loved Me, a novel by IB
, was published in London by Chapman & Hall
; Blagden's short story A Tuscan Wedding was also included in this volume.
Blagden, Isa. The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Loved Me. Chapman and Hall.