AS
published her first novel, Gardenhurst, in three volumes with Chapman and Hall
, dedicated to her younger sister, Katherine O'Shea
(who had been married in January this year).
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(28 October 1867): 9
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Angela Dickens
Elizabeth's father, Mary Angela's other grandfather, Frederick Mullet Evans, co-founded the printing firm Bradbury and Evans
, whose innovative use of a steam-driven rotary press brought it clients including the Illustrated London News and...
Friends, Associates
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Markus also speculates that Jane is the inspiration for the unhappily married character of Alice Bryant in Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters.
Markus, Julia. Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
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Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
Leisure and Society
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Alec Waugh
(son of Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
) recollected Sappho Dawson Scott as a gifted salon hostess in the early twentieth-century London literary scene. Of her Sunday afternoons at home at 125...
Occupation
George Meredith
GM
worked as a journalist for the Ipswich Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Morning Post (where he was editor from 1867 to 1868). He served as literary critic for the Westminister...
Isa Blagden
's second novel in volume form, The Cost of a Secret, was published in London by Chapman & Hall
.
Blagden, Isa. The Cost of a Secret. Chapman and Hall, 1863, 3 vols.
title-page
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.
1859 (13 June 1863): 776
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
She was assisted in her research by Julia Wedgwood
. By 6 February 1857 she had completed the manuscript, which had cost her £100 for research and travel. Unlike the manuscripts of her novels, it...