Lundin, Anne. Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001.
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Literary responses | Kate Greenaway | The first Almanack (for 1883, published in 1882) sold 90,000 copies in England, America, France and Germany. Lundin, Anne. Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001. 181 Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited, 1981. 158 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | DR
began writing March Moonlight, the last segment of Pilgrimage, in 1938, before the publication of the first collected edition. However, she put it aside for various reasons, including the Second World War... |
Publishing | Ménie Muriel Dowie | It was published simultaneously in New York by J. P. Linnicott
and in London by Methuen and Co.
A second London edition appeared just a few months later in May, and the novel was reprinted... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | The great unpublished work of LR
's lifetime was a dictionary. Various groups of friends collaborated on the early phases of this project, first in Mallorca and then in London. Its ancestor was a modest... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson
and a new contract had been... |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | GS
published through J. M. Dent
her first book of verse for children, The Wise Book, with illustrations by her sister Millicent Sowerby
. British Library Catalogue. OCLC WorldCat. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 249 (19 October 1906): 355 |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | Commissioned by Mabel Carey
, children's editor at J. M. Dent
, NS
produced the first, most famous of her children's books, Ballet Shoes. It reworks the central situation of her first adult book, The Whicharts. Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994. 16 Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961. 22-3 |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | Written in London in the early days of World War Two, which felt like the end of civilization, it had an all-male cast, and was published posthumously in 1953 among her collected plays. In 1955... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | In the same year that she published her first novel for adults, MW
followed her first two children's books with a third, Haphazard House. Written after the death of her husband, and taking death... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky
, known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield
and John Middleton Murry
, D. H. Lawrence
, and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | Richard Church
of Dent
had written to DR
in March 1936 to suggest publishing a collected edition of Pilgrimage, including her proposed twelfth volume, as the completed series. This upset and worried Richardson (who... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | After reading volume twelve (Dimple Hill) in 1937, Richard Church
was enthusiastic (he liked the novel better than Clear Horizon) and prepared to go ahead with publishing the collection. However, his plan... |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | Her publisher Richard Church
of Dent
had organised a group of people, including novelist Hugh Walpole
, to write on her behalf to Prime Minister Chamberlain
. The pension allowed Richardson and her husband relief... |
Textual Production | Mabel Birchenough | MB
published her final novel, Private Bobs and the New Recruit, through J. M. Dent
. Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901. |