Andrew Lang

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.

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...

This book, immensely popular with Anglo-Indians, was welcomed in London in a short review from Andrew Lang .

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...

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...

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...

May Kendall is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British...

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.

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 .

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

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...

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...

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...

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.