T. Fisher Unwin

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Fictionalization John Oliver Hobbes
JOH found herself the subject of a more personal response in works by George Moore . Mildred Lawson in Celibates (1895), whose obnoxious heroine was modelled on Moore's reading of his relationship with Hobbes, was...
Publishing Phyllis Bentley
With borrowed money, PB managed to pay Fisher Unwin to publish her first book: a short-story collection entitled The World's Bane, and Other Stories.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998.
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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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
Following the death of her publisher Sidney Williams , FPC had Thomas Fisher Unwin acquire the unbound sheets of seven of her ethical books and issue them under his imprint as an Author's Edition dated...
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
She wrote it during 1891 and 1892, while she was a student at University College, London , and dedicated it to Alfred Goodwin , her academic mentor, who had died in the February of 1892...
Publishing Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
JOH and Moore later quarrelled over contracts relating to their collaborations. Maison mentions one such argument in 1905, and Hobbes refers to an extraordinary scene
qtd. in
Maison, Margaret. John Oliver Hobbes. Eighteen Nineties Society, 1976.
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between her and Moore at Unwin's offices the following...
Publishing Rosamund Marriott Watson
She maintained a friendly correspondence with publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin during the book's preparation. But their amicable relations were temporarily suspended when she wrote a furious letter to Unwin upon seeing Tomson's illustrations in proof...
Publishing Storm Jameson
This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth and Fisher Unwin before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir at Constable . Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband 's...
Publishing Amy Levy
She had written most of its new contents at Dresden and elsewhere on her travels.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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As early as 1882 AL commissioned Clementina Black to approach publishers about what became this book. She had in...
Publishing Amy Levy
She had corrected the proofs only a week before her suicide.
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, 1990.
When Macmillan rejected the collection, she took it to Fisher Unwin the very next day.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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Publishing Dorothy L. Sayers
Whose Body? was published in the UK in October of the same year by Unwin .
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
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Textual Features John Oliver Hobbes
T. Fisher Unwin 's Colonial Edition of this novel featured a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley that was replicated in the Copp Clark edition, which was published in Toronto, also in 1906.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
JOH published her first novella (alternatively sometimes called a short novel), Some Emotions and a Moral, with T. Fisher Unwin .
Clarke, Isabel Constance. Six Portraits. Books for Libraries Press, 1967.
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Timeline

1882: Thomas Fisher Unwin bought the small publishing...

Writing climate item

1882

Thomas Fisher Unwin bought the small publishing house of Marshall Japp and Company and established his own business, T. Fisher Unwin , at 11 Paternoster Buildings, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 304, 310

1917: Merely Players by Lucy Dale and Gertrude...

Women writers item

1917

Merely Players by Lucy Dale and Gertrude Minnie Faulding (writing as G. M. Faulding) was published from T. Fisher Unwin .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Texts

Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of, editor. Women in Industrial Life: The International Congress of Women of 1899. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
Alexander, Mrs. Kitty Costello. T. Fisher Unwin, 1904.
Bentley, Phyllis. The World’s Bane, and Other Stories. T. Fisher Unwin, 1918.
Besant, Annie. Annie Besant. An Autobiography. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
Blind, Mathilde. A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind. Editor Symons, Arthur, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
Blind, Mathilde. Tarantella. T. Fisher Unwin, 1885, 2 vols.
Blind, Mathilde. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind. Editor Symons, Arthur, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
Butler, Josephine. Our Christianity Tested by the Irish Question. T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.
Caird, Mona. One That Wins. T. Fisher Unwin, 1887, 2 vols.
Clapperton, Jane Hume. “Unitary Homes”. Women in Industrial Life: The International Congress of Women of 1899, edited by Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 104-7.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. T. Fisher Unwin, 1896.
Crommelin, May. Half Round the World for a Husband. T. Fisher Unwin, 1896.
Crommelin, May, editor. Poets in the Garden. T. Fisher Unwin, 1885.
Cronwright-Schreiner, S. C. The Life of Olive Schreiner. T. Fisher Unwin, 1924.
Dell, Ethel M. The Knave of Diamonds. T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
Dell, Ethel M. The Way of an Eagle. T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel, editor. Women Adventurers. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin, 1915.
Field, Michael. Wild Honey from Various Thyme. T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Brown Owl. T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
Galsworthy, John. From the Four Winds. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
Hardy, Iza Duffus, and Mrs Alexander. “In Memoriam”. Kitty Costello, T. Fisher Unwin, 1904, pp. 5-7.
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Introductory Studies in Greek Art. T. Fisher Unwin, 1885.
Hobbes, John Oliver. Robert Orange. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.