Andrew Lang

Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Other titles in this volume...

Andrew Lang played an important role in introducing Rosamund Tomson to literary circles, where she became known not only for her talent, but also for her beauty. Linda K. Hughes calls her the female counterpart...

According to Angela Leighton , the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW 's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends...

Her earliest periodical publications garnered the attention of the influential writer and editor Andrew Lang , who assumed from her pseudonym that she was a man. In November 1887, Lang included one of her ballads...

She provided the introduction but not the concluding notes for which the title page gives her credit. In actuality Andrew Lang wrote the notes.

Andrew Lang assumed the role of literary adviser during the volume's preparation. The book had mediocre sales, selling about 250 copies to British and American readers.

She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer 's...

In her early childhood, she read Andrew Lang 's fairy tales, and particularly his Brown Fairy Book (1904). She learned history from the plays of Shakespeare , with which she became familiar in her many...

From a different angle (the needs of children rather than the origins of a genre) ES here supported an idea whose time had come. Andrew Lang (with his wife, Leonora ) published The Blue Fairy...

While in Scotland she met Andrew Lang , who questioned her about her role in her joint authorship with Somerville; she was impressed with his personal knowledge of people she regarded as real authors.

Readers from Somerville and Ross's own time until today have had difficulty believing that their books were not essentially written by one of them and only revised by the other: in other words, that their...

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

EN 's Lays and Legends appeared from Longman , having been favourably reported on by their reader, Andrew Lang .

Contributors included EN herself, Gerald Gould , G. K. Chesterton , Andrew Lang , and Oswald Barron . Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies...

NM 's mother brought her up as agnostic and she was aesthetically repelled by Presbyterianism. However, she felt tensions in herself between the Haldane scientific rationalism and an irrational streak of her own, which connected...