The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1986 (18 November 1865): 683-4
Textual Production
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
's sensation novel Eleanor's Victory, about a daughter turned amateur detective to avenge her father's death, was published in volume form by Tinsley Brothers
, bearing the author's name.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1873 (1863): 361
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
136
Reception
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The second of four early dramatic adaptations of Aurora Floyd, this one by Benjamin Webster
, opened. Weak copyright law meant MEB
received nothing for the many pirated versions of her books that were...
Raymond's Heroine, another three-decker and one of INH
's most popular novels, was published by Hurst and Blackett
(to which now she changed from Tinsley Brothers
, who had published her earlier books).
“Multiple Advertisements and Notices”. The Morning Post, No. 29106.
“The New and Popular Novels”. The Era, No. 1489.
Publishing
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
She undertook the publication herself when she proved unable to find a publisher. By the following year the novel was already in its fourth edition. In 1869 Tinsley Brothers
bought the rights to it for...
Publishing
Ouida
Ouida
's popular first novel, Held in Bondage, was published by Tinsley
.
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.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 242
Publishing
Ouida
It had been serialized in Colburn
's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth
) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 242
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 370
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
With Ouida's...
Publishing
Charlotte Riddell
This was in fact the earliest-written manuscript that CR
ever succeeded in publishing; it had been composed several years before.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
276
After this Skeet
published three more of her books: Too Much Alone, 1860,...
Publishing
Charlotte Riddell
CR
's next publishers, Tinsley Brothers
, had close ties to the circulating libraries and provided a real boost to her career. Their biggest recent success had been Mary Elizabeth Braddon
's Lady Audley's Secret...
Publishing
Charlotte Riddell
She dedicated this book to Alexander Johns
of Carrickfergus.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
325
Tinsley Brothers
arranged within a couple of hours of meeting her to pay her eight hundred pounds for this novel, of which fifty was...
Publishing
Emma Caroline Wood
During ECW
's years as an author, her annual income from her publishers (usually Messrs Chapman and Hall
or Tinsley Brothers
) amounted to over £300.
Publishing
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Its circulation was enormous. In its three-volume form it went through eight issues in its first three months, although reviewers implied that early announcements of these new editions were a form of puffery. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir
Publishing
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Although they initially promised MEB
£250 for Lady Audley's Secret (£300 if it was reviewed in the Times), the Tinsley Brothers
paid her £500 beyond this.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
134-5
Publishing
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It was published in three volumes in December 1863, as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, with Tinsley Brothers
, who paid £2,000 for two-year leases on this and Braddon's next novel.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
136
Timeline
1858: Brothers William and Edward Tinsley formed...