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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Emily Brontë | Charlotte's account of EB
's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the... |
Publishing | Emily Brontë | In early December 1847, the two novels, bound together in three volumes to resemble the standard triple-decker fare of the circulating libraries, were published by Thomas Newby
in London under the pseudonyms Ellis and Acton... |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | A letter from her publisher Newby
in February 1848 suggests that EB
had consulted him about the publication of another novel, then in progress. At the end of the year, he announced that another work... |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | The persona of Ellis Bell, a mask that Emily insisted on retaining past the point when Charlotte would have liked to abandon the pseudonyms, led to considerable speculation and the conflation of the sisters... |
Textual Production | Anne Brontë | AB
's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in three volumes by Thomas Cautley Newby
under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 557 |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | Newby
's advertisement of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the US as the work of Currer Bell
prompted Charlotte and AB
to make a sudden trip to London to refute the claim. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 557 |
Occupation | Anne Brontë | The pseudonymous publication of the volume of Poems by AB
and her sisters, and later of her own Agnes Grey (overshadowed as that was in three-volume publication alongside Emily's Wuthering Heights) seems to have... |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | The novel was accepted for publication by the London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
along with Emily
's Wuthering Heights. The sisters had to underwrite the publication by paying £50, to be refunded if sales... |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | Despite the success of the two novels, Newby
did not refund Emily and AB
's deposit. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 525, 747 |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | The novel sold well and went into a second edition in mid-August. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 564 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 579 |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | Thomas Newby
, Anne's publisher, made the claim, which alarmed Charlotte's Smith, Elder, and Co.
; the sisters revealed their identities solely to their publishers. |
Publishing | Emily Brontë | |
Reception | George Eliot | Unscrupulous publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
took advantage of GE
's work to advertise a spurious Adam Bede, Junior: A Sequel. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 313-14 |
Textual Production | Catherine Maria Grey | The Gambler's Wife. A Novel, a popular silver fork novel by the author of The Young Prima Donna, The Belle of the Familly, The Old Dower House, &c., who (we now know) is... |
Publishing | Julia Kavanagh | It seems that she had indeed offered to a different publisher to edit this work, but had then withdrawn. The dispute in the pages of the Athenæum, involving herself, and T. C. Newby
... |
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