Athenæum. J. Lection.
1658 (1859): 173-4
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Their circle of friends included the critic and historian George Lillie Craik
, Camilla Toulmin
, John Westland Marston
, Alexander Macmillan
(the publisher), Charles Edward Mudie
(founder of Mudie's Lending Library
), and the... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
and her publisher
(Simpkin, Marshall) locked horns with Mudie's Circulating Library
on the issue of her final triple-decker, Sons of Fire; she had three unpublished one-volume novels in hand to meet the new... |
Publishing | Anna Brassey | A frontispiece is a handsome picture of the steam yacht Sunbeam, under full sail. Longman
initially printed one thousand copies priced at a guinea each; this whole print run was taken up by Mudie's Circulating Library |
Publishing | Mary Cholmondeley | Red Pottage sold 8,000 copies by November 1899, resulting a second edition of 10,000, which also sold out. Mudie's Library
alone accounted for sales of 2,000 copies. Unfortunately MC
did not reap the financial benefits... |
Publishing | Wilkie Collins | WC
held firm on the title of his novel entitled The New Magdalen when Charles Mudie
, proprietor of the influential circulating library, objected to it as indecorous; his objection laid the foundation for Collins's... |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
published her three-volume novel A Life for a Life anonymously, but her authorship was known. Mudie's Library
carried 2,500 copies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1658 (1859): 173-4 Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. chronology |
Publishing | George Eliot | George Henry Lewes
persuaded Blackwood
to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to... |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | This quick release of an affordable edition left the big circulating library Mudie's
(who on 27 June had announced with W. H. Smith
a reduction in their standard payment for triple-deckers) with hundreds of expensive... |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
Reception | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty 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. |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | Mudie's Circulating Library
took 400 copies. MRM
was delighted that her book was so indulgently, so very warmly received. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 347 |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | Benjamin Jowett
wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker
. Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman
. The book was reviewed widely—at times... |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
's work reached immense numbers of people. It was a staple of Mudie
's and other circulating libraries
. Her work was swiftly published in the US, and she had numerous titles (novels and... |
Reception | George Eliot | This work drew her first published review in the Times, which was highly appreciative and noted that the fictions were now claimed by Mr. George Eliot—a name unknown to us. qtd. in Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971. 61 |
Reception | Julia Kavanagh | In 1900 Mudie's Library
stocked all of JK
's novels, but not until after the mid twentieth century did scholars cease to see her works chiefly as domestic, ladylike, and safe. Those who do mention... |
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