During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388
She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...
Publishing
Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite the immense success of this book, DMC
continued to publish anonymously, though she took steps to set the record straight when someone else tried to claim the authorship of John Halifax.
It went through more than a dozen editions, generally illustrated, in Britain, the US, and the continent, and was translated into German. Lynn M. Alexander
's edition for Broadview Press
appeared in 2005.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, pp. 41-57.
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Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested...
The same year Broadview Press
issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway
, engraved by Caroline Watson
, to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed...
Reception
Grace Aguilar
As the number of titles published after her death illustrates, GA
's reputation flourished in Britain and in the US into the middle of the twentieth century. In the years following her death, her mother...
Reception
Jane Austen
In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto
, Goldsmith
, Hume
, and Thomson
) appeared in the catalogue...
Reception
Michael Field
After being ignored (or scorned) during parts of their writing life, Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper have been resurrected in recent years by literary scholars interested in the rich field their work offers for...
Reception
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The change in subtitle since the book's serial publication seems calculated to reduce its offensiveness to pro-slavery readers. The book sold an astounding 10,000 copies in the first week and sales kept on at a...
Reception
Kate Chopin
KC
, while relatively well known and read during her lifetime, received little scholarly attention for generations after her death, apart from an early (1932) biography, and a few references to her as a local...
These pieces are, says DL
, long stories, almost short novels. A most enjoyable form this, to write . . . although of course there is no way of getting them printed out of book...
Textual Production
Amelia Opie
AO
left letters, diaries, and unfinished memoirs, which were excerpted in the Memorials of her life by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell
in 1854. Some previously unpublished letters appear in an appendix to the Broadview Press
edition...