She received £180 from publishers Hurst and Blackett
. The novel was dedicated to D. M.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Right or Wrong. Hurst and Blackett, 1859, 2 vols.
prelims
whom some believe to be Dinah Mulock Craik
, though it has been argued that the true recipient...
Publishing
May Crommelin
She wrote it secretly, basing it on her experience of social life in County Down and in Dublin. On a visit to an uncle and aunt in London she persuaded the uncle to take...
Reception
Dinah Mulock Craik
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.
Beddoe, Deirdre et al. “Introduction”. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, Honno, 1987, 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
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
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...
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
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
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
Isabella Neil Harwood
Hurst and Blackett
published INH
's novel Kathleen, again in three volumes without her name but with mention of previous works.
Hunt, Leigh, editor. The Examiner. John Hunt.
3171 (7 November 1868)
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
Dinah Mulock Craik
A Brave Lady was published in three volumes in March 1870 by Hurst and Blackett
.