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...
During ECW
's years as an author, her annual income from her publishers (usually Messrs Chapman and Hall
or Tinsley Brothers
) amounted to over £300.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Katharine O'Shea
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Texts
Mathers, Helen. Story of a Sin : A Novel. Chapman and Hall, 1882.
McDonnell, Michael J. F. A History of St. Paul’s School. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Moore, Edith Mary. The Spirit and the Law. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
Norton, Caroline. The Child of the Islands. Chapman and Hall, 1845.
Ouida, and Enrico Mazzanti. A Dog of Flanders. Chapman and Hall, 1872.
Ouida,. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Ouida,. Chandos. Chapman and Hall, 1866.
Ouida,. Folle-Farine. Chapman and Hall, 1871.
Ouida,. Idalia. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Ouida,. Pascarèl. Chapman and Hall, 1873.
Ouida,. Strathmore. Chapman and Hall, 1865.
Ouida,. Two Little Wooden Shoes. Chapman and Hall, 1874.
Ouida,. Under Two Flags. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Paston, George. A Writer of Books. Chapman and Hall, 1898.
Paston, George. The Career of Candida. Chapman and Hall, 1896.
Plumptre, C. E. Giordano Bruno. Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Chapman and Hall, 1883.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. The Roundabout. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. The Straight Road. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson, and Mabel Ince. Madcap Jane. Chapman and Hall, 1910.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson. Mrs. Noakes. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson. The Agony Column. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Shirreff, Emily. The Kinder-Garten. Chapman and Hall, 1876.
Shore, Arabella. Dante for Beginners. Chapman and Hall, 1886.
Skene, Felicia. Wayfaring Sketches Among the Greeks and Turks, and on the Shores of the Danube. Chapman and Hall, 1847.