Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 413-24. 416-17
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Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | These witches (seven women and a man) were judicially murdered in 1612. The same incident was treated by another novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth
, in 1849 in The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest... |
Textual Production | Charles Dickens | It entertained readers through serialised fiction, biographical sketches, travel logs, and articles on current affairs. The journal eschewed politics, and tended to draw work from authors published by its owner, Richard Bentley
. Following a... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Harrison Ainsworth
, who edited the first Keepsake, admired MS
's work. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 416-17 |
Residence | Ouida | Ouida
was living at Bessborough House, Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, where she met her first publisher, William Harrison Ainsworth
(then editor of Bentley's Miscellany). Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 242 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Reception | Emma Robinson | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading. Athenæum. J. Lection. 844 (1843): 1159 The review is listed as by Chorley. Henry's brother John Rutter Chorley |
Publishing | Ouida | Ouida met the editor of Bentley's, William Harrison Ainsworth
, in late 1858 or early 1859. Dr Francis W. Ainsworth
, a neighbour of hers in Hammersmith, was his cousin. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Publishing | Ouida | It had been serialized in Colburn
's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth
) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 242 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 370 Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Publishing | Ouida | Ouida wanted to call this novel (first serialized in the New Monthly Magazine) The Lady of His Dreams, but was dissuaded by the Monthly's editor, William Harrison Ainsworth
. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 370 |
Publishing | Ellen Wood | EW
's first identified publication, Seven Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic appeared in Harrison Ainsworth'sNew Monthly Magazine. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 5: 853 |
Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
Publishing | Charles Dickens | Serialisation in monthly parts significantly broadened the readership of The Pickwick Papers and meant that it was reviewed more widely than it would have been in volume form. Ironically, such cheapening of literature (CD |
Publishing | Ellen Wood | EW
received £60 for the serial rights to The Shadow of Ashlydyat: it was first published in the New Monthly Magazine, at that point still edited by Ainsworth
, between October 1861 and November 1863. Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. R. Bentley and Son. 262 Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry). |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played Winifred Wood in an adaptation of Harrison Ainsworth
's Jack Sheppard opposite Mary Anne Keeley
in her famous breeches role as Jack. |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |