Chapman and Hall

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Anna Steele
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/.
under Katharine O'Shea
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Evelyn Waugh
His father, Arthur Waugh , was a successful publisher and editor, managing director of Chapman and Hall .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
141
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...
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
She dedicated this book to her son Edward Lovell Moore , then on active service. Chapman and Hall advertised the novel repeatedly in the Times Literary Supplement
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(13 January 1916): 17; (3 February 1916): 53; (2 March 1916): 100; (6 April 1916): 163
Publishing Annie Tinsley
She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder ; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall ...
Publishing Ouida
The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall ; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury
Publishing Charles Dickens
The project was originally initatied and envisioned by publishers Chapman and Hall as text to accompany a showcase of engravings by Robert Seymour , a popular illustrator. On Seymour's suicide shortly after publication began, Dickens...
Publishing Annie Tinsley
The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder , though for a limited period of seven years. She...
Publishing Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
245
Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG
Publishing Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
First published by Chapman and Hall in London and by R. Worthington in New York, it was quickly reprinted in the USA, at Chicago as well as New York. A facsimile from the first...
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG entered into the first known English agreement for royalty payment on a new edition of Cranford and a collection of Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales put out by Chapman and Hall .
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press, 1967.
406-7, 967
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. University of Chicago Press, 1976.
97-8
Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan (after reading by Alexander Macmillan and John Morley ), by Chapman and Hall (after reading by George Meredith

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Texts

Andersen, Hans Christian. Wonderful Stories for Children. Translator Howitt, Mary, Chapman and Hall, 1846.
Austin, Sarah. Two Letters on Girls’ Schools, and on the Training of Working Women. Chapman and Hall, 1857.
Benson, Theodora, editor. The First Time I . . . Chapman and Hall, 1935.
Benson, Theodora. “The First Time I Met the Team”. The First Time I . . ., edited by Theodora Benson, Chapman and Hall, 1935, pp. 283-06.
Benson, Theodora. The Unambitious Journey. Chapman and Hall, 1935.
Betjeman, John. Ghastly Good Taste. Chapman and Hall, 1933.
Billington, Mary Frances. Woman in India. Chapman and Hall, 1895.
Blagden, Isa. Nora and Archibald Lee. Chapman and Hall, 1867, 3 vols.
Blagden, Isa. The Cost of a Secret. Chapman and Hall, 1863, 3 vols.
Blagden, Isa. The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Loved Me. Chapman and Hall, 1865.
Bottome, Phyllis. Secretly Armed. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Captive. Chapman and Hall, 1915.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels, Historical, Legendary and Romantic. Chapman and Hall, 1884, 12 vols.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Chapman and Hall, 1857.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Casa Guidi Windows. Chapman and Hall, 1851.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. Editor Browning, Robert, Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. New ed., Chapman and Hall, 1850, 2 vols.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems Before Congress. Chapman and Hall, 1860.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. Poems, New ed., Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Chapman and Hall, 1864.
Browning, Robert. Men and Women. Chapman and Hall, 1855, 2 vols.
Bryher,. Region of Lutany. Chapman and Hall, 1914.
Butts, Mary. Speed the Plough and Other Stories. Chapman and Hall, 1923.
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.