After the appearance of Goblin Market, CR
had less difficulty placing her verse in periodicals. The tide had already started to turn in the 1850s, when her work began to appear in journals including...
Intertextuality and Influence
Cecily Mackworth
The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman
's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
37n
She was asked to write this...
Material Conditions of Writing
Jeanette Winterson
Winterson began writing the novel after she was turned down for a publishing job at Pandora Press
, because the interviewing editor suggested she should write a book about her early life. Adam Mars-Jones
has...
Material Conditions of Writing
Dorothy Richardson
While she was working on this novel, her husband Alan Odle
was preparing for a show of his drawings and book illustrations. Both of these projects necessitated their spending the winter in London, and...
Occupation
Jeanette Winterson
Her other jobs included working at Gateways
, a well-known lesbian club in London, as a general factotum at the Roundhouse Theatre
, and at domestic work and general organization of life for a...
Publishing
Mary Leadbeater
These two volumes were re-issued in facsimile by Routledge
in 1998, with an introduction by ML
scholar Maria Luddy
.
For this publication she turned to Routledge
after F. S. Ellis
dragged their heels. She was paid a £25 advance when the book appeared.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
395-6, 398
When she wrote out her fair copy, she included...
Publishing
Harriet Lee
John Murray
paid HL
£300 in probably 1822 for the copyright of the Canterbury Tales; but he made a loss, for sales of his re-issue did not cover his printing expenses, let alone the...
Publishing
Dora Russell
This has been often reprinted, recently by Routledge
in 1996.
Published in four volumes (her longest) by Cadell
, it had been written some years previously. The section where the heroine's son is carried off by Indians was reprinted as The Lost Son, An Affecting...
Publishing
Sarah Scott
A facsimile reprint by Routledge/Thoemmes
,1993, is part of a boxed set of novels selling for £625.
Publishing
Joanna Baillie
JB
's introduction cites Adam Smith
's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Her full title was A Series of Plays: In Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion Being...
Publishing
Amy Levy
She had written most of its new contents at Dresden and elsewhere on her travels.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
77
As early as 1882 AL
commissioned Clementina Black
to approach publishers about what became this book. She had in...
Publishing
Agnes Strickland
AS
edited a literary annual for Routledge
: The Birth-day Gift: a Christmas and New Year's present.
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.
Publishing
Cecily Mackworth
Routledge
were trying to persuade her to produce this book, very quickly, in late 1946.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
73
Before her journey, in early 1947, she told a friend of her motives: she would have her expenses paid...
Timeline
1 July 1865: Frederick Warne and Company began business...
29 May 1868: The case of Routledge vs. Low led the House...
Writing climate item
29 May 1868
The case of Routledge
vs. Low led the House of Lords
to expand the meaning of British Soil to include the whole British Empire under existing copyright protection laws.
16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...
1880: Caroline Lindsay collected and illustrated...
Women writers item
1880
Caroline Lindsay
collected and illustrated an anthology which Routledge
published nine years later as About Robins: Facts, Songs and Legends, under her married title of Lady Lindsay, although she was separated from her husband.
1938: Routledge and Sons decided not to publish...
Writing climate item
1938
Routledge and Sons
decided not to publish former prostitute Sheila Cousin
's autobiographyTo Beg I am Ashamed after the publisher received much bad press and threats of prosecution from the police.
June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...
Women writers item
June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
Texts
Cook, Thomas et al. The History of Tourism: Thomas Cook and the Origins of Leisure Travel. Routledge/Thoemmes, 1998.
Kaye, John William. “The ’Non-Existence’ of Women”. The Disempowered: Women and the Law, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1995.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “The Formation, Transmission, and Reception of Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span>”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 1-118.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “Who’s Who in Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span>”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 120-6.