Andrew Lang

Although she wrote the book two years before this, PB did not have it published at that time because she had to nurse her sister Wilmett , who was ill with tuberculosis.

The story Mysterious Kor, with its fine pen-picture of the Regent's Park area of London, with its tall eighteenth-century houses blacked out as a precaution against bombers but brilliantly lit by moonlight, is...

RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...

SACD searched for a publisher for his novel, as he had for A Study in Scarlet, until it was taken by Longmans, Green and Co. on the advice of Andrew Lang .

This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...

The volume was well-received by EGB 's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and...

VH and her sister Silvia Hunt (later Fogg-Elliot) helped with the 's immensely popular versions of fairy tales from many lands and ages which Andrew Lang published this year as The Blue Fairy Book.

Friends of VH 's family included John Ruskin , Edward Burne-Jones , John Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Robert Browning , and Christina Rossetti , who read Violet's early poems. VH also met and...

Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...

Lang encouraged her to publish, as well as offering commentary on her poetry and printing her poems in his Longman's column, At the Sign of the Ship. The novel fuses Lang 's knowledge...

MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora , launched a...

However, others were less willing to attribute the talent evident in the volume to MK . A reviewer from The Athenæum went so far as to say no doubt she owes a great deal, both...

White Poppies was serialized in Sylvia's Journal, thanks to its editor (apparently a friend of MK ), Rosamund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson). Kendall was most likely acquainted with Watson through Andrew Lang

The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang in advertising the book.Percy Addleshaw in The Academy found it in some measure a disappointment. Her...

MK 's first full-length published work was a short novel, in part a fairy tale: That Very Mab, written in collaboration with Andrew Lang , the classical scholar and folklore collector.