Again she published with Chapman and Hall
, who put out a second edition within the year.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Gaskell
The collection, published by Chapman and Hall
, reprinted material which had first appeared in these journals, including The Sexton's Hero, The Squire's Story, The Old Nurse's Story, and the title story...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Publishing
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.
'Twixt Earth and Stars was followed in 1908 by A Sheaf of Verses (again RH
paid for its publication by Bumpus
).
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
84-5
Souhami, Diana. The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
42-3
She issued three more volumes of poetry (having changed her publisher...
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...
There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both...
Reception
Geraldine Jewsbury
Many Victorian readers found Zoe shocking, and GJ
's publisher
feared negative repercussions for printing it. Anna Maria Hall
complained that it was a most dangerous book, shaking the foundations of all sound doctrine.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
80
Textual Production
May Laffan
Chapman and Hall
published ML
's novella A Singer's Story, as by the author of Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor. This was her single work in the moral tale genre, and probably her...
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
Publishing
Katharine S. Macquoid
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...
Textual Production
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.