EG
entered into the first known English agreement for royalty payment on a new edition of Cranford and a collection of Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales put out by Chapman and Hall
.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
406-7, 967
Sutherland, John. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. University of Chicago Press.
97-8
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...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
gave the manuscript of Mary Barton to William Howitt
for his advice—he later claimed to have suggested the novel—and he in turn showed it to John Forster
, a reader for Chapman and Hall
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
referred to the novel before its publication as A Manchester Love Story, but the character of her hero, John Barton, after whom she initially named it, was central to her conception of it...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
Again she published with Chapman and Hall
, who put out a second edition within the year.
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
EMM
issued another new novel with another new publisher: The Spirit and the Law, through Chapman and Hall
.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, pp. 75-105.
87
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
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...
Textual Production
Isa Blagden
The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Loved Me, a novel by IB
, was published in London by Chapman & Hall
; Blagden's short story A Tuscan Wedding was also included in this volume.
Blagden, Isa. The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Loved Me. Chapman and Hall.
title-page
Textual Production
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A new two-volume edition of EBB
's Poems was published by Chapman and Hall
.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
228
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.
1205 (30 November 1850): 1242-4
Textual Production
Radclyffe Hall
'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...
Textual Production
Anthony Trollope
AT
issued one of his most-discussed novels, Can You Forgive Her?, with Chapman and Hall
in serial form. It was illustrated by Phiz
.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
103
Textual Production
Anthony Trollope
AT
published in monthly instalments the novel The Way We Live Now, a satirical take on recent financial scandals. Chapman and Hall
brought it out in volume form in the latter year.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
