The collection, published by Chapman and Hall
, reprinted material which had first appeared in these journals, including The Sexton's Hero, The Squire's Story, The Old Nurse's Story, and the title story...
Textual Production
May Laffan
Chapman and Hall
published ML
's novella A Singer's Story, as by the author of Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor. This was her single work in the moral tale genre, and probably her...
Textual Production
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Chapman and Hall
published CADS
's novel The Agony Column, the first of her Some Wives trilogy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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, 1865.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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Reception
Geraldine Jewsbury
Many Victorian readers found Zoe shocking, and GJ
's publisher
feared negative repercussions for printing it. Anna Maria Hall
complained that it was a most dangerous book, shaking the foundations of all sound doctrine.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
KSM
switched publishers after this book. She asked the advice of Lewes
, and he recommended her to Frederic Chapman
of Chapman and Hall
. But the next book she published, Elinor Dryden's Probation...
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, 2000.
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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 Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
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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...
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
Olive Schreiner
Her publisher, Frederic Chapman
(of Chapman and Hall
), was concerned about the character Lyndall, who bears a child out of wedlock. He asked Schreiner to rewrite parts of the novel, including the secret marriage...
Publishing
Olive Schreiner
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
Ouida
Ouida
published (with Chapman and Hall
) Two Little Wooden Shoes: A Sketch; it appeared the same year in the United States and Germany.