Her editor Eric Gillett
searched for the record of her death between 1852 and 1858, and found many Elizabeth Hams but not the one he was looking for. He does not explain why he limited...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Ham
EH
's 1945 editor, Eric Gillett
, slights the novel as a very, very romantic story
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
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of tragic love, and supposes that Macalbert is a portrait of a real-life admirer of the author with...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Ham
Introducing this work, Gillett
denigrated it. He said the omitted material consisted of almost maudlin self-pity and inconsequential gossip.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
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What he printed he judged to be readable, but not a first-rate autobiography.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
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He...
Publishing
Mary Renault
The book immediately appealed toRobert Longman
, who was always looking out for new authors. Reader Eric Gillett
, however, suggested some cuts.
Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
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The US version of the novel, published shortly afterwards, was...
Publishing
Elizabeth Ham
EH
showed her Infants' Grammar to the bookseller Mr Criswick
of Dorchester in about 1820, along with her poem Elgiva. He apparently hoped to have the publishing of it himself; and EH
's 1945...
Publishing
Elizabeth Ham
It appeared in a version which is only about half as long as the original. Eric Gillett
, the editor, compressed the book by fifty thousand words, partly because of wartime paper shortage, but partly...
Reception
Maria Jane Jewsbury
In 1932 Eric Gillett
edited, and wrote a memoir for, a selected reprint of this work, published under the title Occasional Papers.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Features
Elizabeth Ham
The book, or that portion of it which survives, ends when the story has reached about 1824, with EH
employed as a governess.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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Eric Gillett
was wrong in thinking it ends in 1820.
Timeline
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Texts
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
