The reviewer for the Victoria Magazine called the author a gifted lady
Lewis, Sarah. Sappho. Trübner.
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and praised the way in which the play brings out into deep relief the terrible nature and punishment of crime, and the...
Material Conditions of Writing
Augusta Gregory
The essay, her first published work, was motivated by her desire to raise Arabi's profile in Britain. Her husband, Sir William Gregory, almost prevented its publication. When she first sought his permission, he granted it...
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
Although this edition was not handsome in appearance, FAS
preferred it to the grander English edition retitled Tales of the Punjab,
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
96
1894, of which she liked neither the title nor the illustrations by...
Publishing
Helen Taylor
The essay, originally titled The Ladies' Petition, was reprinted as a pamphlet the same year, after John Stuart Mill
approached publisher Trübner and Co.
with the manuscript.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
KT
published her first book, Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems. Her father
paid the publisher, Kegan, Paul & Co.
, £20 to have the volume published.
FK
composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
When Edward Lombe
, a wealthy follower of Comte, learned of the project, he sent HM
£500. From this she paid for the printing expenses and took £200 for her own payment. She also arranged...
Publishing
L. S. Bevington
Four of these poems were reprinted in Popular Science Monthly at the request of LSB
's friend Herbert Spencer
, a social scientist renowned for developing the concept of social Darwinism. The original publisher of...
Publishing
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
According to scholars, the first edition of this collection is extremely rare. The second and much expanded edition, published in 1888, tells us that the first edition perished, together with several other of her works...
Publishing
Mary Carpenter
MC
commemorated another friend and fellow activist with a biography: The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy, published by Trübner and Co.
at both London and Calcutta.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. MacMillan and Co.
246
Publishing
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
C. A. Dawson (later CADS
) published her 210-page feminist epic poem Sappho, at her own expense with Kegan Paul
.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Reception
Rosamund Marriott Watson
In introducing The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, H. B. Marriott Watson
calls Taresjuvenilia and suggests that the poet did not set a high value
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, p. vii - ix.
vii
on her earliest publication. The title in...
Reception
Hannah Lynch
The Saturday Review called the book a fascinating study of child life . . . marked by originality, humour, and pathos.The Observer called it distinctly interesting and full of excellences.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
35824 (9 May 1899): 14
Reception
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She thought her reputation as a poet was made when Sappho received a column of praise in the Morning Post.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
13
However, there was soon afterwards a devastating fire at the Kegan Paul
warehouse...