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...
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Ouida
Ouida
published (with Chapman and Hall
) Two Little Wooden Shoes: A Sketch; it appeared the same year in the United States and Germany.
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
...
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Isa Blagden
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.
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
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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.
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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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.
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...
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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.
197
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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.
