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
Evelyn Waugh
EW
published Decline and Fall, his first novel. Several sexually risqué passages were toned down at the request of his publishers, Chapman
, but he restored them in a second edition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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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.
There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both...
Publishing
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...
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.
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
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...
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
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
Textual Production
Ethel Smyth
ES
's writings about her own times included individual studies of other people. As well as writing of Mrs Pankhurst in Female Pipings in Eden, she published Beecham
and Pharoah in May 1935 with...
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.
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Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
