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.
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Publishing | Anna Letitia Waring | At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. |
Publishing | Georgiana Chatterton | She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman
, William Holman Hunt
(who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle
, Alfred Lord Tennyson
(who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and German historian Leopold Ranke
. |
Publishing | Isabella Banks | Heywood and Son
, the Manchester publishers whom IB
had known since childhood and who were issuing a collected edition of her works, published her new novel More than Coronets (titled from a poem by... |
Publishing | Agatha Christie | This, called only The Mirror Crack'd in the US edition the following year (so that the quotation from Tennyson
becomes easy to miss), was followed by A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 (in which Miss Marple's... |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee... |
Publishing | Sara Coleridge | SC
published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of Tennyson
's The Princess in the Quarterly Review. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 731 |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | Further submissions to the Athenæum were rebuffed as too infected with Tennyson
ian mannerisms. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 88 |
Publishing | Blanche Warre Cornish | |
Publishing | George Eliot | The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman
's ownership. One of her own contributions... |
Reception | Elizabeth Siddal | He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson
's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott
's Flora MacIvor. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 14 |
Reception | Catherine Marsh | As mentioned above, Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment was widely circulated, selling nearly eighty thousand copies in its first year. O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co. 125 |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson
, Arnold
, Robert Browning
, Margaret Oliphant
, T. H. Huxley
, and James Russell Lowell
was formed to devise a memorial to DMC
in Tewkesbury... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | On 4 July 1846, two anonymous reviews appeared of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell: one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 497-8 |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, De Quincey
, and Ebenezer Elliot
. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 499 |
Reception | A. Mary F. Robinson | The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson
and Browning
had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London. Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell. 376 |
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