Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
2255 results Periodical publication
Emma Marshall
Throughout these years, from 1868, as well as later,
was writing for periodicals. She was a regular in Home Words and Fireside News, both edited by the Rev.
. In 1895 she mentioned contributions to Friendly Leaves, the Sunday Magazine, and the The Boys' and Girls' Companion for Leisure Hours.
Helen Mathers, 1851 - 1920
's first publication was a short story in Belgravia. If the date is accurate she was about twenty.
Susan Miles
Before her first volume appeared,
was placing poetry in periodicals like the New Statesman and suffragist papers.
Nancy Mitford
's novels were the logical next step from her earliest literary efforts: social columns and short stories published in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Tatler, and The Lady. The money she earned from these pieces—in March 1929 she reported having earned £22 in the last three months—helped to finance her social life. She continued to draw on her experiences in the social circles of London's high society in her first two novels. After her marriage to Peter Rodd in 1933, her writing provided a significant share of the household income.
Anne Mozley
began reviewing books in 1847 for the high-church Christian Remembrancer (of which her brother
was editor). Her contributions continued until the magazine closed in 1868, by which time she had extended her field to include writing, still anonymously, for Bentley's Quarterly (1859-60), the Saturday Review (1861-77), and Blackwood's Magazine (from 1865).
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
issued with the The Sun-fish, a collection of poems, some new and some previously published in magazines or journals such as Cyphers and the Irish University Review.
Kate O'Brien
One of
's professors at
encouraged her to write poetry, but both she and her friends knew that the poetry she wrote was no good. She began contributing short stories and essays to periodicals while she was working as a journalist and later as an editor in London.
Sarah Flower Adams
contributed poetry, drama, short stories and essays to the Monthly Repository: she began as Sarah Flower, before her marriage.
Grace Aguilar
Between 1839 and May 1846,
's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate, published from Philadelphia, printed twenty-seven poems by
, as well as some prose extracts.
Louisa May Alcott
began writing while she was very young. At the age of ten she began a journal which was soon afterwards read and commented on by her
. She was also a regular contributor to the family periodical. Her first published work appeared in September 1851 in Peterson's Magazine, a poem titled Sunlight. The following spring, her storyThe Rival Painters was published in the Olive Branch.Her first novel, The Inheritance, was never published during her life but reveals
's influence on her writings.
has produced a book-length study on the connection between the two writers, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations.
Cecil Frances Alexander
contributed pieces to the collection Lyra Anglicana: Hymns and Sacred Songs (which, edited by
and published in 1862, reached sales of thirty thousand within three years and sixty-nine thousand by 1879). She wrote for the
, as well as several other religious journals and hymnals.
Anna Livia
has published her short stories in such periodicals as Spinster, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and Girljock. She has also included her fiction in anthologies edited by
,
,
, and
, among others. Under the pseudonym Faustina Rey, she contributed a story called The Truth to the 1995 collection Queer View Mirror, and
included her
would have liked that in Telling Moments: autobiographical lesbian short stories, 2003.
Pat Arrowsmith
kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train, retaining the faulty grammar and misspellings.. At
she wrote sonnets in
an style to a girl she was in love with, as well as comic and mock-heroic poems, religious and political poems, conventional nature poems, including a couple of poor imitations of
, a pantomime, and several plays, one of them in French. Two of her poems (not the irreverent mock-heroic) were printed in the college magazine, and her dramatic skit was performed at school in summer 1947. She sent the Archbishop of Canterbury a copy of a poem written on VE (Victory in Europe) Day, and had quite an appreciative letter back, though this did not, as she had hoped, lead to publication.
Margaret Atwood
While writer-in-residence at the English Department of the
,
contributed to the department's short-lived periodical called The Merry Devil of Edmonton, 1969-71. Other contributors included
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. Atwood and
provided illustrations.
Rudy M. Ayres
Her first tangible success was winning first prize (a guinea) in a school story competition held by the Boy's Own Paper (which she submitted, to conform to expectations, under the name of one of her brothers).
Mary Bailey
published over eighty poems in the Colonial Times of Hobart in Tasmania, which was the colony's leading newspaper at the time.
Louisa Baldwin
The original edition of nine stories was illustrated by
. A new, limited edition (500 copies) from
of Ashcroft, British Columbia, 2001 (edited by
and
, and not the first new edition of recent times), reproduces these illustrations along with the original stories and one, The Ticking of the Clock, previously uncollected. Some of the stories had previously appeared in such periodicals as Longman's Magazine, Cornhill, and The Argosy. Baldwin dedicated this work to her nephew
, to whom she occasionally sent drafts of her writings for his opinion.
Mary Barber
Several of her poems appeared in periodicals (including the Gentleman's Magazine) and miscellanies in the years before her collected volume, but none of them with her name. Stella and Flavia appeared in three miscellanies and a newspaper, but its attribution to
is doubtful.
Natalie Clifford Barney
published some of
's poems in Mercure de France in 1910. In 1921
had two of her poems published in the transatlantic review, with the caption Arranged by
. A few poems are also included in
's collection of letters to and about
, In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde, privately printed at Dijon in 1951.
Sir J. M. Barrie
's first book appeared: Auld Licht Idylls, a collection of short stories previously issued in periodicals.
Sybille Bedford
worked at many journalistic jobsover the course of her career. She spent a full six months as assistant consultant on an encyclopedic volume on wine. She also wrote on food, and on literature in many genres. She worked at travel journalism, which fed my desire to see and to learn and helped to finance my slow books. For The Times she supplied a polemical piece about the need for government policy on population control, and an obituary on
, one of England's earliest women solicitors. Her articles on literature, food and wine, travel and law, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Observer, The Spectator, Vogue, Encounter, Horizon, the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and many other periodicals. Some of these, like The Quality of Travel, 1961, are reprinted in As It Was: Pleasures, Landscapes and Justice, 1990.
Eva Mary Bell
In 1920
was listed as a regular contributor to the Woman's Supplement of The Times. On 31 October 1929, in the continuing aftermath of
's book Mother India, Bell wrote to The Times to disagree with
(very respectfully: Rathbone's reputation for fair play and sincerity needs no defence from me) and to urge unity and co-operation among those working for the betterment of Indian women. When suffrage for some but not all Indian women was being discussed, she wrote again to argue that widows of soldiers killed on active service certainly deserved the vote. Having written repeatedly to The Times on the issue of Indian women's education, she went on to send a short note about counting one's blessings during the second world war, and a strong objection (following the lead of
) to the way the
doled out more money for an injured man than an injured woman. This form of the broader practice of unequal pay,
argued, was indefensible since medical services charged no less for women patients; single women often have dependent parents; disabled men are frequently able (as women are not) to secure the services of a wife; and the humanity common to both sexes has a right to relief.
Arnold Bennett
Having begun as a journalist,
remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther.. During the first world war, he wrote a series of articles on war (which ran nearly the whole duration of the conflict) for the Daily News. Because of these articles, the
summoned him to London for political consultation, and by 1915 he had worked as a front-line government propagandist in France, describing conditions at the Front. During the last year of the first world war Bennett was a prolific contributor to newspapers. In the years after the war, his contributions to journals and magazines steeply dropped off, but they began to pick up again after he met
in 1922.
Stella Benson
began contributing to the children's pages of the journal St Nicholas.
Theodora Benson
Country Life carried
's article A House to Remember, about Stowe House at Lichfield, Staffordshire, where she grew up.