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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...

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...

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...

It was first issued in Britain without authorization by Ward, Lock in their Favourite Authors, British and Foreign series.HJ wrote to his mother on 13 January 1878: Did I tell you it had...

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...

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.

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...

SACD had sold the rights to Ward Lock on 26 November 1886 for the disappointing sum of £25. Ward Lock helped to get a sequel, The Sign of the Four, published in Lippincott's in...

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...

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...

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. Early on she worked with a Mrs...

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.

ML 's next collection of tales was a single volume called Robert Holt's Illusion, and Other Stories, published under her real name by Ward .

HL 's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration), was published by Ward, Lock and Co. in London.

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...