While the first two of these novels were published by Bentley
in three volumes, The Lasses of Leverhouse appeared in one-volume form from Hurst and Blackett
. This domestic story was first seen in the...
Publishing
Eliza Meteyard
She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
John Halifax was in such demand that DMC
's publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic...
Textual Features
Ethel Savi
All or almost all of ES
's fiction is set in Bengal. In 1920 her publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, advertised her 6 Famous Indian Novels at two shillings each.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Textual Production
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Hurst & Blackett
published CADS
's novel The Caddis-Worm; or, Episodes in the Life of Richard and Catharine Blake.
The date comes from the Bodleian Library
copy. The caddis worm, larva of the dragonfly...
Textual Production
Julia Stretton
In a one-volume anonymous Hurst and Blackett
reprint of 1860 the title-page quotes Tennyson
on the rosebud garden of girls. The book is dedicated to Margaret, my sister, feeling sure, that the seven other sisters...
Textual Production
Hélène Barcynska
Years later HB
was moved to write an autobiographical article of 12,000 words to refute something similar by Armiger Barclay
in which he claimed to be the author of The Honey-Pot. It was through...
Textual Production
Isabella Neil Harwood
Hurst and Blackett
published INH
's novel Kathleen, again in three volumes without her name but with mention of previous works.
Beddoe, Deirdre et al. “Introduction”. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, Honno, p. ix - xix.
xiii-xiv
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
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
MCH
published as one of Blackett
's Select Shilling Novels series a lengthy pamphlet, Only a Woman's Life, By One Who Saved It, about her intervention on behalf of Fanny Stallard
, who was condemned for child-murder.
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
Hélène Barcynska
After her implicit agreement with her estranged husband
over Pretty Dear (that he could continue to take half her profits for publications under the name of Barcynska), Marguerite Barclay submitted to Woman's Weekly a new...
Textual Production
Frances Browne
FB
published her first three-volume novel, My Share of the World: An Autobiography with Hurst and Blackett
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 March 1861): 11
Textual Production
Dinah Mulock Craik
A Brave Lady was published in three volumes in March 1870 by Hurst and Blackett
.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
131
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.
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Texts
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Through Spain to the Sahara. Hurst and Blackett, 1868.
Blagden, Isa. The Crown of a life. Hurst and Blackett, 1869.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Dead Love has Chains. Hurst and Blackett, 1907.
Browne, Frances. My Share of the World. Hurst and Blackett, 1861.
Browne, Frances. The Castleford Case. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Bunbury, Selina. Life in Sweden. Hurst and Blackett, 1853.
Bunbury, Selina. Russia After the War. Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Mary Mirrilees. Hurst and Blackett, 1916.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Won at Last. Hurst and Blackett, 1874.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Clive, Caroline. John Greswold. Hurst and Blackett, 1864.
Cooper, Elizabeth, and Lady Arbella Stuart. The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart. Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Brave Lady. Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, editor. A Legacy. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. Hurst and Blackett.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Noble Life. Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women. Hurst and Blackett, 1858.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Christian’s Mistake. Hurst and Blackett, 1865.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Hannah. Hurst and Blackett, 1872.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. John Halifax, Gentleman. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Mistress and Maid. Hurst and Blackett, 1863.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Poems. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Woman’s Kingdom. Hurst and Blackett, 1869.
