Michael Sadleir

SJ planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable . However, when Michael Sadleir requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann , which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...

The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...

Having completed this novel AM approached her father and said, Papa, I don't know what you will say, but I have been writing a story. His first response was amusement. When he had read...

The Critical Review judged this a novel not one of the first order, or even of the second, and its characters too darkly tinted. The two plots were not sufficiently connected and the language had...

Most published comment on EP has been confined to her gothic novels, and most gothicists (Montague Summers and Devendra P. Varma , for instance) have treated her grudgingly: less than mediocre and respectable...

Scholar Michael Sadleir gave a lunch party to celebrate the publication, and was impressed by LR 's ability to make her ancient characters real.

In Paris while her husband worked on the Armistice, VSW planned with Michael Sadleir the joint editorship of a journal to be called The Critic; the journal never came into existence.

ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...

Stories from Holy Writ (early work published late in HW 's life, but carefully revised by her for the press) rapidly sold 3,500 copies even with practically no reviewing. These stories made Violet Markham

HW treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It...

According to bibliographer Michael Sadleir , OW 's earliest publication was a Chorus of Cloud Maidens which appeared in the Dublin University Magazine.

In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...

Ten years after her death, EW 's Ashley, and Other Stories was published; the other stories were, like the title tale, drawn from The Argosy.