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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agatha Christie | Although AC
was supposed to be writing propaganda, her opinions on her own chosen genre were too strong to be muzzled. Having begun with praise of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, John Dickson Carr
... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In 1892 JF
contributed chapter twelve to a collaboratively-written novel entitled The Fate of Fenella (along with twenty-three other authors including Helen Mathers
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
and Bram Stoker
). Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 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 | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's fifth play, Becky Sharp (titled from the protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair), was first performed. Also this year he collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle
on a libretto for Jane Annie. “Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia”. C20th.com. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
Textual Production | May Crommelin | The collaborators included Julia Frankau
, Clotilde Graves
, Margaret Hungerford
, Helen Mathers
, Florence Marryat
, Adeline Sergeant
, Tasma
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, and Bram Stoker
. The... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | HM
collaborated with Florence Marryat
, Julia Frankau
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, Bram Stoker
, Justin H. McCarthy
, Joseph Hatton
, and others in a serial novel, The Fate of Fenella, in The Gentlewoman. Maunder, Andrew. “Introduction”. The Fate of Fenella, Valancourt Books, p. vii - xxiii. vii Mathers, Helen et al. The Fate of Fenella. Cassell. titlepage “Summary of News”. The British Architect, pp. 407-8. 408 |
Publishing | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
published her story The Catch of the Season in The Strand Magazine. The issue also features writing by Arthur Conan Doyle
and Grant Allen
. Dickens, Mary Angela. “The Catch of the Season”. The Strand Magazine, Vol. xiv , No. 79, pp. 66-72. 66-73 |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Arthur Conan Doyle
considered this novel better than anything George Eliot
had written. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 243 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Despite the vicissitudes in the sales of her fiction, MAW
remained a major public figure from the time of Robert Elsmere's success until her death. Her popularity was in large part due to her... |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Her very first fiction, rejected with a kind message of encouragement from Mr Everett
of C. Arthur Pearson
, later became the germ of her successful first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. She had hit... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | As a story-teller Evans has a sure grasp, making every tiny detail contribute to an effect which is understated but emotionally powerful. The named character in Miss Potts and Music is largely a peg for... |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson
(whom he had never... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Somerville | ES
attended a meeting of 8,000 spiritualists in the Albert Hall in London; speakers included Conan Doyle
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 229 |