“Selina Bunbury”. The Irish Book Lover, Vol.
vii
, No. 6, pp. 105-7. 106
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her next school was the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen (a school that counted its pupils in single figures and was run by a trio of very young sisters). Frances was good at... |
| Education | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
and her elder brother were both educated at home under their mother's excellent tutelage until Katharine was ten and her brother was twelve. Their rigorous programme of education required the nine-year-old Katharine to read... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Smythies | After she began her career as a novelist, HS
moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth
and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton
. Literary historian Montague Summers... |
| Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Bunbury | SB
wrote most of this book during her residence in Warwickshire, and completed it in Ireland in the year she attended her dying mother. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Wood | According to EW
's son and biographer Charles Wood
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, as proprietor of Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine, had early in her career dissuaded her from writing a... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
Timeline
17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...
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17 August 1612
The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.
12 March to 25 May 1644: In her husband's absence the royalist Countess...
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12 March to 25 May 1644
In her husband
's absence the royalist Countess of Derby
, born a Huguenot Frenchwoman, successfully stood a siege at Lathom House in Lancashire (a towered and moated building).
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
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3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...
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3 May 1834
William Harrison Ainsworth
published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.
4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...
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4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
February 1842: The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine:...
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February 1842
The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art appeared, catering to popular Victorian taste in entertainment and literature.
By 6 January 1849: William Harrison Ainsworth's historical novel...
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By 6 January 1849
William Harrison Ainsworth
's historicalnovelThe Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest (about a real witch-hunt of 1612) appeared in volume form.
December 1868: With sales of the once-popular Bentley's...
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December 1868
With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley
, ended its publication.
Texts
Hutton, Catherine. “A Sketch of A Family of Originals”. Ainsworth’s Magazine, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, Vol.
5
, pp. 56-63.