Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Friends, Associates | Flora Klickmann | Sir George Grove
, then Secretary of the Crystal Palace, became and remained a personal friend, as did composer August Manns
, who proposed marriage to her but was not accepted. She met other musical... |
Occupation | Flora Klickmann | As a music student FK
had served as page-turner to some famous pianists performing at the Crystal Palace. After abandoning her concert performance ambitions she continued to play the organ for temperance or co-operative... |
Publishing | Isabella Beeton | Many further editions, abridgements, and follow-up publications appeared in the following years, as Samuel Beeton
and, following his failure, Ward, Lock and Co.
capitalised on the book's success. As Sarah Freeman
notes, later editions, which... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret was serialised again, this time to its conclusion, in Ward and Lock
's Sixpenny Magazine; it appeared in volume form in October 1862. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 5 |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's mock-prophetic The Age of Science, A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century, published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler
in 1877 as by Merlin Nostradamus, skewers the arrogance of medical professionals while taking... |
Publishing | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
Publishing | Jane Porter | The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was... |
Publishing | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In the preface, CEH
explains that Manners for Women was designed as a counterpart to Manners for Men after several reviewers requested a follow-up guide for women. Some of the material, she explains, had already... |
Publishing | Henry James | It was first issued in Britain without authorization by Ward, Lock
in their Favourite Authors, British and Foreign series. Edel, Leon et al. A Bibliography of Henry James. 3rd edition, Clarendon Press, 1982. 32-3 |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | Despite the fact that MAW
had been a best-selling author, the poor showing of her recent books meant that Reginald Smith
of Smith, Elder
was for some time unable to place her next novel, the... |
Textual Production | L. T. Meade | LTM
also wrote mysteries jointly with Robert Eustace (Eustace Robert Barton
), both in the form of magazine stories and of novels published with Ward, Lock and Co.
The latter include A Master of... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Her mother
edited it, conducting most of its correspondence with readers. A joint venture with Ward, Lock and Tyler
, this weekly was meant to compete with Reynolds's Miscellany. MEB
's contributions included The... |
Textual Production | Mary Martha Sherwood | Ward and Lock
's new and improved edition is the earliest known of MMS
's anti-Catholic novel The Monk (some of whose later editions, including one published in Manchester, 1847) are titledThe Monk of Cimiés. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In an interview featured in The Sketch in 1894, Mrs Humphry recalled that this was when she began her literary career, having always had a taste for writing. “An Interview with "Madge" of ‘Truth’”. The Sketch, Vol. 6 , No. 78, 25 July 1894, p. 698. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | CEH
also published Manners for Girls, a conduct book which was first issued by T. Fisher Unwin
in London in 1901, and re-issued in 1910 by Ward, Lock and Co. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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