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Chapman and Hall
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | 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). Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Katharine O'Shea |
| 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Angela Dickens | Elizabeth's father, Mary Angela's other grandfather, |
| 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 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The English Chapman and Hall
edition cost 12s, the United States edition from C. S. Francis
, for which he paid the author $100, was $1. Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000. 106 |
| 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 | Olive Schreiner | Her publisher, Frederic Chapman
(of Chapman and Hall
), was concerned about the character Lyndall, who bears a child out of wedlock. He asked Schreiner to rewrite parts of the novel, including the secret marriage... |
| Publishing | Evelyn Waugh | EW
published Decline and Fall, his first novel. Several sexually risqué passages were toned down at the request of his publishers, Chapman
, but he restored them in a second edition. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall”. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181 -01. 197 |
| Publishing | Mary Butts | MB
' first book, a volume entitled Speed the Plough and Other Stories, was advertised by her publisher, Chapman and Hall
, with a kind of health warning to conventional buyers. Speed the Plough... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Olive Schreiner | Schreiner began writing the book in South Africa in 1873, and continued to work on it while living in England. She returned to it often, but it never reached a stage where she considered... |
| Publishing | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | After her rejection by Pawling
, P. R.
said she should try another publisher. Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
liked her manuscript but judged it too outspoken because it mentioned corsets. He suggested another... |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
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