Saunders and Otley

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Marsh
Harriet Martineau was amazed when AM first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood ) must have been almost equally amazed...
Occupation George Meredith
GM worked as a journalist for the Ipswich Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Morning Post (where he was editor from 1867 to 1868). He served as literary critic for the Westminister...
Publishing Frances Trollope
Both this and another of her novels, Charles Chesterfield; or, The Adventures of a Youth of Genius, were serialized between July 1840 and December 1841, the former with New Monthly Magazine and the latter...
Publishing Eliza Lynn Linton
She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
Saunders and Otley gave her £900 for the copyright of the first edition, on the express understanding that they would not interfere with the contents.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 97-8
Publishing Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of...
Publishing Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...
Publishing Caroline Norton
She had paid for her European holiday in the year before publication with the £300 that publishers Saunders and Otley paid her for this book.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
98
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
HM set out in this book to judge American society, in its spirit and methods, by the American tests,—the Declaration of Independence, and the constitutions based upon its principles. It had become a practice so...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
Her introduction describes the circumstances of her plays' composition, and her experiences in getting them staged.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
To work already performed and published this collection added Gaston de Blondeville and Otto of Wittelsbach.
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: 82, 110
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Blessington 's second silver-fork novel, The Two Friends, was published with Saunders and Otley .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published anonymously, with Saunders and Otley , the three-decker historical novel "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826, 3 vols.
title-page
Textual Production Ellis Cornelia Knight
The novel was published in London by Saunders and Otley .
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM 's three-volume Retrospect of Western Travel, another book about the USA, was published by Saunders and Otley .
Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library, 1947.
128
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
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: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...

Timeline

1826: William Saunders and Edward John Otley established...

Writing climate item

1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 271

Texts

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. The Two Friends. Saunders and Otley, 1835, 3 vols.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. The Victims of Society. Saunders and Otley, 1837, 3 vols.
Boyle, Mary. The State Prisoner. Saunders and Otley, 1837, 2 vols.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Seraphim, and Other Poems. Saunders and Otley, 1838.
Browning, Robert. Pauline. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826, 3 vols.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Family Records; or, The Two Sisters. Saunders and Otley, 1841, 3 vols.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Suspirium Sanctorum; or, Holy Breathings. Saunders and Otley, 1826.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections. Saunders and Otley, 1841, 3 vols.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Rambles in the South of Ireland During the Year 1838. 2nd ed., Saunders and Otley, 1839, 2 vols.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Rambles in the South of Ireland during the Year 1838. Saunders and Otley, 1839, 2 vols.
Chatterton, Georgiana. The Pyrenees, with Excursions into Spain. Saunders and Otley, 1843, 2 vols.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols.
Clive, Caroline. I Watched the Heavens. Saunders and Otley, 1842.
Clive, Caroline. Paul Ferroll. Saunders and Otley, 1855.
Clive, Caroline. Poems. Saunders and Otley, 1856.
Clive, Caroline. The Queen’s Ball. Saunders and Otley, 1847.
Clive, Caroline. The Valley of the Rea. Saunders and Otley, 1851.
Clive, Caroline. Why Paul Ferrol killed his Wife. Saunders and Otley, 1860.
Clive, Caroline. Year after Year. Saunders and Otley, 1858.
Crowe, Catherine. Adventures of Susan Hopley; or, Circumstantial Evidence. Saunders and Otley, 1841, 3 vols.
Crowe, Catherine. Men and Women; or, Manorial Rights. Saunders and Otley, 1844, 3 vols.
Disraeli, Benjamin, and Sarah Disraeli. A Year at Hartlebury. Saunders and Otley, 1834, 2 vols.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Poetry of Life. Saunders and Otley, 1835, 2 vols.
Gatty, Margaret, and Alfred Gatty. Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A.J. Scott. Saunders and Otley, 1842.