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...
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Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Under her current married name of Gladys Mendl, the future GHS
published through Chapman and Hall
her first novel, which she called The Straight Road, and dedicated to the unidentified B. I. F...
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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
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
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
Ouida
Ouida
published (with Chapman and Hall
) Two Little Wooden Shoes: A Sketch; it appeared the same year in the United States and Germany.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, pp. 75-105.
87
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
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
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...
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Harriet Martineau
HM
published The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
, Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from John Chapman
.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press.
217
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
KSM
switched publishers after this book. She asked the advice of Lewes
, and he recommended her to Frederic Chapman
of Chapman and Hall
. But the next book she published, Elinor Dryden's Probation...
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Sarah Macnaughtan
Four years after SM
's death, her friend Beatrice Home
(a writer of guidebooks and other works) edited and published her book of travel memoirs, My Canadian Memories, through Chapman and Hall
.
“Reviews: My Canadian Memories”. Woman’s Leader and the Common Cause, Vol.
12
, No. 46, p. 986.
12.46 (17 December 1920): 986
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Texts
Colenso, Frances, and Edward Durnford. History of the Zulu War and Its Origin. Chapman and Hall, 1880.
Colenso, Frances, and Edward Durnford. My Chief and I; or, Six Months in Natal After the Lagalibalele Outbreak. Chapman and Hall, 1880.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Agatha’s Husband. Chapman and Hall, 1853.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Agatha’s Husband. Chapman and Hall, 1858.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, and James Godwin. Alice Learmont: A Fairy Tale. Chapman and Hall, 1852.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Olive. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Head of the Family. Chapman and Hall, 1852.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Head of the Family. Chapman and Hall, 1878.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Ogilvies. Chapman and Hall, 1849.
Dickens, Charles, and John Leech. A Christmas Carol. Chapman and Hall, 1843.
Dickens, Charles, and Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend. Chapman and Hall, 1865.
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, 1839.
Dickens, Charles, and Luke Fildes. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Dickens, Charles et al. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman and Hall, 1841.
Dickens, Charles et al. The Pickwick Papers. Chapman and Hall, 1837.
Fane, Violet. Anthony Babington. Chapman and Hall, 1877.
Fane, Violet. Autumn Songs. Chapman and Hall, 1889.
Fane, Violet. Denzil Place. Chapman and Hall, 1875.
Fane, Violet. The Queen of the Fairies. Chapman and Hall, 1876.
Fane, Violet. The Story of Helen Davenant. Chapman and Hall, 1889.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Chapman and Hall, 1853.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. Chapman and Hall, 1848.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. Chapman and Hall, 1855.