Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Robertson Nicoll
Standard Name: Nicoll, William Robertson
Used Form: W. R. Nicoll
Connections
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Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Rigby | The entire article reviewed three texts: Vanity Fair; Jane Eyre; and the Governesses' Benevolent Institution: Report for 1847. ER
's authorship was generally unknown until 1892, when it was revealed by William Robertson Nicoll |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Sir William Robertson Nicoll
launched a new periodical, The Woman at Home: a sixpenny monthly with Swan
's advice column, Over the Teacups, as its key feature. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton. 20 Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge. 158, 217 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. |
Residence | Dora Greenwell | At some point she must have moved again, since the 1881 census confirms that authoressDora Greenwell
was a boarder with the Nicoll family at their London home. Noted author and clergyman William Nicoll
(who... |
Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | In the prefatory matter, W. Robertson Nicoll
notes that he commissioned the volume's three essays for periodical publication. ELL
had intended to produce a fairly complete chronicle of her literary life, but did not live... |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | At around this time she published a single article in Blackwood's Magazine on The Country Town, and a couple of stories in William Robertson Nicoll
's The British Weekly. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 56, 79 |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her... |
Literary responses | Hélène Barcynska | The Garment of Gold was well reviewed by William Robertson Nicoll
, and HB
felt that at last she had achieved her ambition of making a name. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 99 |
Literary responses | Dora Greenwell | During her lifetime, DG
maintained a loyal and consistent following. William Michael Rossetti
said of her that she produced some work both refined and of genuine feeling to which her appearance and manner corresponded. Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable. 89 |
death | Dora Greenwell |
Timeline
October 1891: William Robertson Nicoll developed The Bookman...
Writing climate item
October 1891
William Robertson Nicoll
developed The Bookman as a popular London monthly of informal literary discussion and essays.
Texts
Nicoll, William Robertson. “Dora Greenwell”. Good Words, Vol.
27
, pp. 106-9.