Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol.
30
, No. 1, pp. 89-107. 91
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | She persevered, however. She names about ten editors, male and female, who took her work at this time, sometimes offering advice as well as payment: a piece for the Sphere won her ten guineas from... |
Textual Production | Anne Brontë | AB
continued to write poetry after the unsuccessful publication of the collaborative volume, but with the exception of The Three Guides (which appeared in Fraser's Magazine in August 1848) does not seem to have published... |
Fictionalization | Margaret Catchpole | Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) married Egerton Tertius Clairmonte
, whom she had met only months before. Her editor Terence de Vere White gives his name as George Egerton Clairmonte, and supposes that GE
took... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | Here GE
first used her pseudonym, George Egerton, which she took from her mother
's surname and the first Christian name of her husband
(whom she had married two years before this). Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 91 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | The first collected edition of EG
's work was the 8-volume Knutsford Edition with prefaces by A. W. Ward
(1906). Clement Shorter
provided introductions to eleven volumes of The Novels and Tales of Mrs. Gaskell... |
Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | Bryher, the illegitimate daughter of wealthy shipping magnate Sir John Ellerman
, had developed an interest in HD after reading her poetry, and wrote to her requesting a meeting. She had obtained HD's address from... |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
wrote on 23 January 1893 to offer Clement Shorter
a short story especially for the Sketch. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 22 |
Textual Features | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am... |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | In his review for The Sphere, Clement Shorter
deemed this matchless. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 234 Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. University Press of Virginia . 193 |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | DS
married Clement King Shorter
, a prominent English journalist and editor. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Dora Sigerson | The Daily Telegraph carried DS
's verse prayer, Comfort the Women, A Prayer in Time of War, which her husband, Clement Shorter
, afterwards privately printed and distributed in an edition of twenty copies. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Dora Sigerson | DS
's An Old Proverb first appeared in The Nation; this too her husband
privately printed the same year in twenty-five copies as a free-standing publication for distribution among his friends. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Dora Sigerson | Katharine Tynan
and Eva Gore-Booth
compiled a collection of poems by other people entitled In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson
, 1918-1923, of which DS
's husband, Clement Shorter
, privately printed twenty-five copies. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |