In 1843 AP
contributed her first published poem, Ministering Angels, to Heath's Book of Beauty. She also published a few pieces in the Cornhill Magazine and Good Words, and a number in the English Woman's Journal, but the bulk of her work appeared initially in Dickens
's weekly magazines.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
The child MPD
published poetry in the Poetry Review.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
MG
started writing articles for the Irish nationalist cause this year, publishing both Un Peuple Opprimé in La Nouvelle Revue Internationale and a series entitled Le Martyre de L'Irlande in Journal des Voyages.
Her first published poem appeared in 1818 in the Pocket Magazine under the pseudonym Edward.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Barbara Wreaks
(later BH
) published in the Sheffield Courant a series of sketches later reprinted as Characteristics of Some Leading Inhabitants of Sheffield.
Anna Murphy, later ABJ
, published in the London Magazine, under the initials A. J., a poem which later appeared as Farewell to Italy in Diary of an Ennuyée.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
AJ
began publishing on matters of theological controversy and liberty of conscience in letters signed Priscilla which appeared in the London Chronicle.
Priscilla was a woman mentioned several times in the New Testament as an early Christian teacher.
Each letter addressed some individual theologian by name, by turns assailing the most formidable champions of the system whereby Anglican clergymen were compelled to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles. Her most frequent targets were Samuel Hallifax
, Thomas Randolph
, and Thomas Balguy
.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
Because of her left-wing politics, DL
had been officially declared a prohibited person, with all kinds of restrictions on mixing with others. Being Prohibited was published in the New Statesman, and may well have initiated Going Home, her volume of essays about return visits to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
Ipp, Catharina. Doris Lessing: A Bibliography. University of Witwatersrand, 1967.
Ling Shuhua
reached print for the first time when she completed an essay assignment about her role in a student demonstration inspired by the political events of and after 4 May 1919. Her teacher read it aloud with appreciation and sent to the Tianjin Daily newspaper for publication.
Ling Shuhua,. Ancient Melodies. Hogarth Press, 1953.
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Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
The school magazine of St Margaret's College, Christchurch, New Zealand, published its first number. It was jointly edited by NM
and included two essays and a comic poem of her composition. She continued to appear in later issues.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
Between 1820 and 1870, JSM
published essays, reviews, and letters in major periodicals, including the Westminster Review (later his own London and Westminster Review), Fraser's Magazine, the Monthly Repository, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, the Morning Chronicle, and the Edinburgh Review.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Collini, Stefan et al. “Textual Introduction”. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, edited by John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1984, p. lvii - lxxxiii.
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Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Sentiment and Intellect: The Story of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill”. Essays on Sex Equality, edited by Alice S. Rossi, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 1-63.
Even before her marriage, Sydney Owenson was a frequent writer of letters to Irish newspapers about such topics as the state of the poor and the malpractice of debtors' prisons.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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As Lady Morgan she remained a vivid, observant, idiosyncratic, and entertaining writer of personal letters all her life. She began to keep a diary in 1825.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
CN
's first published poem, The Lady Doctor appeared in London Society.
Daniell, Madeline, and Constance Naden. “Memoir”. Induction and Deduction, edited by Robert Lewins and Robert Lewins, Bickers and Son, 1890, p. vii - xviii.
After a two-year break from writing, EN
, now living in Victoria, Australia, took up her pen again. The resulting short story, about a dentist's receptionist looking for romance, appeared in the Australasian in 1920. She received two guineas for it. With this success behind her, EN
began to write more short stories, many of which appeared in Home. She wrote an article on Queensland for the LondonTimes, which was printed in 1922 in their Empire Day Supplement. After she separated from her first husband in 1923, he accused her of having taken her stories from others. When she moved to Manchester with her second husband
, she wrote back-pagers for the Manchester Guardian.
MFB
's parents encouraged their daughter to read the newspapers at an early age, which nourished her early passion for journalism. This interest allowed her to support herself through her own writing by the time she was in her late teens. Her first articles speculated on the fantastic—in particular, Dorset ghosts—while her first paid work came as a columnist for The Globe and Traveller.
LBL
's poem Pastoral appeared in the London Mercury: it was collected in Cape
's The Best Poems of 1932 in the same year.
Dowson says Best Poetry, but that title was not current, so she presumably must mean The Best Poems of 1932.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
AB
began writing very young. Her earliest poem was probably The Dying Child's Last Words (When I lie sleeping in my grave, / Dear friends, remember me),
qtd. in
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.
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closely followed by The Kitten's Chorus, whose chorus line is a multiple repetition of Miew!
qtd. in
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.
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The kitten poem is the only survivor of her writing for a magazine which she produced with her schoolfriend Leila Langdale
, modelled on Cassell
's Little Folks.
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.