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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both...
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...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
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.
Blagden, Isa. The Cost of a Secret. Chapman and Hall, 1863.
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.
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. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
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.
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.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. Shakespeare Proverbs. Chapman and Hall, 1848.
