She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder
; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall
...
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
Publishing
Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder
, though for a limited period of seven years. She...
Publishing
Ouida
The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley
to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall
; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury
Occupation
George Meredith
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.
141
Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
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.