Chapman and Hall

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Stevie Smith
SS published her third novel, The Holiday, with Chapman and Hall , after Jonathan Cape rejected it.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.
290, 284-5
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2473 (24 June 1949): 414
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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, 1863, 3 vols.
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
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
She was assisted in her research by Julia Wedgwood . By 6 February 1857 she had completed the manuscript, which had cost her £100 for research and travel. Unlike the manuscripts of her novels, it...
Publishing Ada Leverson
Chapman and Hall reprinted the novels of AL .
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 47
Publishing Emma Caroline Wood
During ECW 's years as an author, her annual income from her publishers (usually Messrs Chapman and Hall or Tinsley Brothers ) amounted to over £300.
Reception Ouida
This novel was successful enough to make publisher Richard BentleyRichard Bentley and Son consider taking over publication of Ouida 's novels from Chapman and Hall .
qtd. in
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.
87
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.
80
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Under her current married name of Gladys Mendl, the future GHS published through Chapman and Hall her first novel, which she called The Straight Road, and dedicated to the unidentified B. I. F...
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
Four years after SM 's death, her friend Beatrice Home (a writer of guidebooks and other works) edited and published her book of travel memoirs, My Canadian Memories, through Chapman and Hall .
“Reviews: My Canadian Memories”. Woman’s Leader and the Common Cause, Vol.
12
, No. 46, 17 Dec. 1920, p. 986.
12.46 (17 December 1920): 986
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, 1957.
228
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
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM published The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte , Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from John Chapman .
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
217
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 385
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Anthony Trollope
AT issued one of his most-discussed novels, Can You Forgive Her?, with Chapman and Hall in serial form. It was illustrated by Phiz .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
103
Textual Production Anthony Trollope
AT published in monthly instalments the novel The Way We Live Now, a satirical take on recent financial scandals. Chapman and Hall brought it out in volume form in the latter year.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
663
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...

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Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. Chapman and Hall, 1874, 3 vols.
Forster, John. Walter Savage Landor. Chapman and Hall, 1869, 2 vols.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Chapman and Hall, 1853.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. Chapman and Hall, 1848.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Ruth. Chapman and Hall, 1853, 3 vols.
Gaskell, Elizabeth, and Birket Foster. The Moorland Cottage. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Fight of Faith. Chapman and Hall, 1869, 2 vols.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Whiteboy. Chapman and Hall, 1845, 2 vols.
Hall, Radclyffe. Poems of the Past and Present. Chapman and Hall, 1910.
Hall, Radclyffe. Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems. Chapman and Hall, 1913.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Forgotten Island. Chapman and Hall, 1915.
Hamilton, Cicely. Just to Get Married. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Hamilton, Cicely. Marriage as a Trade. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Hardy, Mary Anne Duffus. Down South. Chapman and Hall, 1883.
Hardy, Mary Anne Duffus. Through Cities and Prairie Lands. Chapman and Hall, 1881.
Holme, Constance. He-Who-Came? Chapman and Hall, 1930.
Hunt, Violet. A Hard Woman. Chapman and Hall, 1895.
Hunt, Violet. Sooner or Later. Chapman and Hall, 1904.
Hunt, Violet. The Celebrity at Home. Chapman and Hall, 1904.
Hunt, Violet. The Way of Marriage. Chapman and Hall, 1896.
Hunt, Violet. Unkist, Unkind! Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Half Sisters. Chapman and Hall, 1848, 2 vols.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Zoe. Chapman and Hall, 1845, 3 vols.