Roberts Brothers

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Christina Rossetti
Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's stepfather Eugene Benson published (with Roberts of Boston) a book about an illustrious woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, Gaspara Stampa , with a selection from her sonnets translated into English by George Fleming.
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 Julia Constance Fletcher
Kismet was a copyrighted title in the UK. JCF dedicated the book to T.G.A, H.M.B, and E.B. (Thomas Gold Appleton , her mother , and her stepfather ).
Cooke, Neil, editor. Journeys Erased by Time. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.
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It was reviewed in England...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
This too was included by Roberts Brothers in their No Name series the year after London publication; this edition was anonymous, not using her pseudonym. Roberts printed 5,560 copies, plus almost as many of a...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
This too was published by Roberts in Boston and by Macmillan in London. The US edition had a dark green cover of modern design, with title and author's pseudonym enclosed in a gilded oval...
Publishing Jean Ingelow
Rossetti also benefited from JI 's success. Following the advice of a friend , Ingelow wrote to an American publisher informing them that she was aware of literary piracy in America, and asking for...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
Charles Warren Stoddard (not a trustworthy witness) implies that JCF's first book (her debut as George Fleming) appeared after her early journal essays; it was reviewed as new in England in April 1877. Titled...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's (George Fleming's) novel Andromeda was published in two volumes by Bentley in London, by Roberts in the USA, and in a Tauchnitz edition the same year.
“Popular New Novels”. Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, Vol.
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, No. 1565, 24 Oct. 1885, p. 563, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/9228622/74C0C25EC74949A7PQ/4?accountid=14474.
563
Locker, Arthur, editor. “New Novels”. The Graphic, Vol.
32
, No. 834, 21 Nov. 1885, p. 579, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/1618415192/414C9B36E58E498EPQ/13?accountid=14474.
579
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 Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF published her final novel (as George Fleming) in the USA: The Truth about Clement Ker appeared from Roberts Brothers of Boston.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

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Texts

Alcott, Louisa May. Jo’s Boys. Roberts Brothers, 1886.
Alcott, Louisa May, and May Alcott Nieriker. Little Women. Roberts Brothers, 1868.
Dickinson, Emily. Poems by Emily Dickinson. Editors Todd, Mabel Loomis and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Roberts Brothers, 1863.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Author’s Complete Edition, Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Ingelow, Jean. Songs of Seven. Roberts Brothers, 1866.
Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers, 1871.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The New Arcadia and Other Poems. Roberts Brothers, 1884.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
Tucker, Elizabeth S., and Juliana Horatia Ewing. Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing’s "Canada Home". Roberts Brothers, 1896.