Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Bell | She wrote the original part of manuscript for pleasure, but had to add six chapters to it to bring it to book-length, urged on by her parents (who wanted to distract her after the death... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Richard Bentley
published SM
's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999. 224 Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999. 149 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. 1316 (15 January 1853): 73-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Literary responses | Ouida | Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury
, commissioned by RichardBentley
to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | For Geraldine Jewsbury
(who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's
), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a... |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | These novels did badly; at least one made a loss for the publisher, Bentley
. Pettit, Clare. “‘Every man for himself, and God for us all!’ Mrs Oliphant, Self-help, and Industrial Success Literature in John Drayton and The Melvilles”. Women’s Writing, No. 2, pp. 163 - 79. 166 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Susanna Moodie | Responding to her publisher's
request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM
quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999. 221, 224 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. 1348 (27 August 1853): 1012-3 |
Occupation | Geraldine Jewsbury | After establishing herself as a serious writer of fiction and periodical articles, GJ
also proved her abilities as a critic. In addition to reading for important publishers such as Bentley & Sons
from 1858 to... |
Occupation | Catherine Maria Grey | From what little is known, CMG
became a silver-fork novelist who signed most of her own contracts. (Her husband signed her first contract with Richard Bentley
, but she signed the second.) She began writing... |
Author summary | Geraldine Jewsbury | During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction... |
Publishing | Florence Marryat | During this time she oversaw the serialization of three of her own novels, and weathered an acrimonious shift of publisher from Bentley
to Clowes and Son
. Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University. 70 |
Publishing | Mary Brunton | |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | John Gibson Lockhart
managed ME
's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley
: Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Their titles were Sealed Orders, The Previsions of Lady Evelyn, and A Soldier's Fortune. AM
had some trouble negotiating the terms for this publication. She wrote to her son on 28 March,... |