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
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 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, 2000.
106
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
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.
Speed the Plough...
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...
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, 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, 1935.
80
Textual Production
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Many, including Charles Dickens
, have speculated that JWC
could have produced wonderful novels, and because she did not she is often viewed as something of a missing woman writer
Christianson, Aileen. “Rewriting Herself: Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Letters”. Scotlands: The International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Culture, Vol.
2
, No. 1, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 47-52.
47
despite her enormous output...
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, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
663
Textual Production
May Crommelin
In addition to joining the crowd of authors of Fenella, and twice producing novels in more ordinary paired collaborations, MC
joined with her sister Caroline Shaw
to produce a chapter on Furniture and Decoration...
Textual Production
Mary Angela Dickens
All the Year Round published MAD
's best-known novel, Cross Currents, in serial form. Chapman and Hall
issued the novel in three volumes during the same year.
Bassett, Troy J. “Title Information at the Circulating Library”. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901.
Textual Production
Anna Steele
AS
published her second novel, So Runs the World Away, again with Chapman and Hall
.
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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, 1997.
84-5
Souhami, Diana. The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.
42-3
She issued three more volumes of poetry (having changed her publisher...
Textual Production
Anna Steele
AS
published her novel Condoned in three volumes with Chapman and Hall
.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
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Texts
Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. Chapman and Hall, 1874, 3 vols.
Forster, John. Walter Savage Landor. Chapman and Hall, 1869, 2 vols.
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.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Ruth. Chapman and Hall, 1853, 3 vols.
Gaskell, Elizabeth, and Birket Foster. The Moorland Cottage. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Fight of Faith. Chapman and Hall, 1869, 2 vols.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Whiteboy. Chapman and Hall, 1845, 2 vols.
Hall, Radclyffe. Poems of the Past and Present. Chapman and Hall, 1910.
Hall, Radclyffe. Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems. Chapman and Hall, 1913.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Forgotten Island. Chapman and Hall, 1915.
Hamilton, Cicely. Just to Get Married. Chapman and Hall, 1911.
Hamilton, Cicely. Marriage as a Trade. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Hardy, Mary Anne Duffus. Down South. Chapman and Hall, 1883.
Hardy, Mary Anne Duffus. Through Cities and Prairie Lands. Chapman and Hall, 1881.
Holme, Constance. He-Who-Came?. Chapman and Hall, 1930.
Hunt, Violet. A Hard Woman. Chapman and Hall, 1895.
Hunt, Violet. Sooner or Later. Chapman and Hall, 1904.
Hunt, Violet. The Celebrity at Home. Chapman and Hall, 1904.
Hunt, Violet. The Way of Marriage. Chapman and Hall, 1896.
Hunt, Violet. Unkist, Unkind!. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Half Sisters. Chapman and Hall, 1848, 2 vols.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Zoe. Chapman and Hall, 1845, 3 vols.
