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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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. “Selina Bunbury”. The Irish Book Lover, Vol. vii , No. 6, pp. 105-7. 106 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
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. |
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... |
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 |