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Ward Lock Ltd
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | Despite the fact that MAW
had been a best-selling author, the poor showing of her recent books meant that Reginald Smith
of Smith, Elder
was for some time unable to place her next novel, the... |
Textual Production | Mary Martha Sherwood | Ward and Lock
's new and improved edition is the earliest known of MMS
's anti-Catholic novel The Monk (some of whose later editions, including one published in Manchester, 1847) are titledThe Monk of Cimiés. |
Publishing | Jane Porter | The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was... |
Textual Production | L. T. Meade | LTM
also wrote mysteries jointly with Robert Eustace (Eustace Robert Barton
), both in the form of magazine stories and of novels published with Ward, Lock and Co.
The latter include A Master of... |
Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | HL
's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration), Lynch, Hannah. Through Troubled Waters. Ward, Lock, and Co., p. viii, 460 pp. Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press. 233 and n71 Athenæum. J. Lection. 3004 (1885): 660 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Linskill | |
Friends, Associates | Flora Klickmann | Sir George Grove
, then Secretary of the Crystal Palace, became and remained a personal friend, as did composer August Manns
, who proposed marriage to her but was not accepted. She met other musical... |
Occupation | Flora Klickmann | As a music student FK
had served as page-turner to some famous pianists performing at the Crystal Palace. After abandoning her concert performance ambitions she continued to play the organ for temperance or co-operative... |
Publishing | Henry James | It was first issued in Britain without authorization by Ward, Lock
in their Favourite Authors, British and Foreign series. Edel, Leon et al. A Bibliography of Henry James. Clarendon Press. 32-3 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In an interview featured in The Sketch in 1894, Mrs Humphry recalled that this was when she began her literary career, having always had a taste for writing. “An Interview with "Madge" of ‘Truth’”. The Sketch, Vol. 6 , No. 78, p. 698. |
Publishing | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In the preface, CEH
explains that Manners for Women was designed as a counterpart to Manners for Men after several reviewers requested a follow-up guide for women. Some of the material, she explains, had already... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | CEH
also published Manners for Girls, a conduct book which was first issued by T. Fisher Unwin
in London in 1901, and re-issued in 1910 by Ward, Lock and Co. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's mock-prophetic The Age of Science, A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century, published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler
in 1877 as by Merlin Nostradamus, skewers the arrogance of medical professionals while taking... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret was serialised again, this time to its conclusion, in Ward and Lock
's Sixpenny Magazine; it appeared in volume form in October 1862. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 5 |
Timeline
23 June 1854: Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established...
Writing climate item
23 June 1854
Ebenezer Ward
and George Lock
established the publishing house of Ward and Lock
at 158 Fleet Street, London, the former premises of David Nutt
.
23 June 1854: Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established...
Writing climate item
23 June 1854
Ebenezer Ward
and George Lock
established the publishing house of Ward and Lock
at 158 Fleet Street, London, the former premises of David Nutt
.
11 May 1866: The London Stock Exchange suffered through...
National or international item
11 May 1866
The London Stock Exchange suffered through Black Friday after the bankruptcy of the bank Overend, Gurney and Company
.
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