Andrew Lang

Standard Name: Lang, Andrew

Connections

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Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN 's Lays and Legends appeared from Longman , having been favourably reported on by their reader, Andrew Lang .
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
129
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH and her sister Silvia Hunt (later Fogg-Elliot) helped with the 's immensely popular versions of fairy tales from many lands and ages which Andrew Lang published this year as The Blue Fairy Book.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
34
Textual Production E. Nesbit
Contributors included EN herself, Gerald Gould , G. K. Chesterton , Andrew Lang , and Oswald Barron . Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies...
Textual Production May Kendall
MK 's first full-length published work was a short novel, in part a fairy tale: That Very Mab, written in collaboration with Andrew Lang , the classical scholar and folklore collector.
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.
56
Textual Production May Kendall
MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora , launched a...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her earliest periodical publications garnered the attention of the influential writer and editor Andrew Lang , who assumed from her pseudonym that she was a man. In November 1887, Lang included one of her ballads...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
She provided the introduction but not the concluding notes for which the title page gives her credit. In actuality Andrew Lang wrote the notes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
264
Other titles in this volume...
Textual Features Evelyn Sharp
From a different angle (the needs of children rather than the origins of a genre) ES here supported an idea whose time had come. Andrew Lang (with his wife, Leonora ) published The Blue Fairy...
Publishing Phyllis Bottome
Although she wrote the book two years before this, PB did not have it published at that time because she had to nurse her sister Wilmett , who was ill with tuberculosis.
Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock.
272-3, 275, 284-5
Publishing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
SACD searched for a publisher for his novel, as he had for A Study in Scarlet, until it was taken by Longmans, Green and Co. on the advice of Andrew Lang .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing May Kendall
White Poppies was serialized in Sylvia's Journal, thanks to its editor (apparently a friend of MK ), Rosamund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson). Kendall was most likely acquainted with Watson through Andrew Lang
Author summary May Kendall
May Kendall is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British...
Literary responses May Kendall
The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang in advertising the book.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
122
Percy Addleshaw in The Academy found it in some measure a disappointment.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
122
Her...

Timeline

November 1882: The first issue of the monthly Longman's...

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November 1882

The first issue of the monthlyLongman's Magazine was published.

1889: Andrew Lang and his wife Leonora published...

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1889

Andrew Lang and his wife Leonora published the first of their series of fairy volumes: The Blue Fairy Book. Other colours followed.

Texts

Kendall, May, and Andrew Lang. That Very Mab. Longmans, Green and Co., http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21337.