Michael Sadleir

Standard Name: Sadleir, Michael

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Textual Production	Ellen Wood	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. Ashley was serialised in volume 53 of The Argosy...
Textual Production	John Strange Winter	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...
Publishing	Oscar Wilde	According to bibliographer Michael Sadleir , OW 's earliest publication was a Chorus of Cloud Maidens which appeared in the Dublin University Magazine. Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81. 79
Literary responses	Helen Waddell	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. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 204 These stories made Violet Markham
Literary responses	Helen Waddell	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...
Cultural formation	Eleanor Sleath	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...
Publishing	Eleanor Sleath	This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 761 Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
Textual Production	Vita Sackville-West	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. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 102
Literary responses	Laura Riding	Scholar Michael Sadleir gave a lunch party to celebrate the publication, and was impressed by LR 's ability to make her ancient characters real. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 295 He was agreeably surprised to learn that one of Riding's...
Reception	Eliza Parsons	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...
Literary responses	Eliza Parsons	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 Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, p. vii - xvii. viii and respectable...
Literary responses	Anne Manning	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. Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 212 His first response was amusement. When he had read...
Literary responses	F. Tennyson Jesse	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. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 213 In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...
Occupation	Storm Jameson	She was introduced to Alfred and Blanche Knopf by her publisher and friend Michael Sadleir . Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 188 In her autobiography she comments, I wrote to every well-known author under the age of fifty. I had...
Friends, Associates	Storm Jameson	Michael Sadleir first took Jameson to the Thursday evening salons hosted by Naomi Royde-Smith at her Queen's Gate home. These gatherings were attended by Rose Macaulay , Arnold Bennett , Edward Marsh , and Frank Swinnerton

Timeline

January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.

17 November 1958

The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir , who had recently died.

Texts

Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.

Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81.

Sadleir, Michael. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Chaundy and Cox, 1922.

Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.

Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. Constable; University of California Press, 1951.