William Pett Ridge

It is dedicated, in gratitude and affection, to W. Pett Ridge , who was known as a novelist of the London lower classes. It bears as epigraph an unascribed quotation from the Roman poet Horace

Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs , Barry Pain , Jerome K. Jerome , Hugh Walpole , and Ernest Temple Thurston . Pett Ridge (P...

As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. She was reassured by the ordinary appearance of Effie Adelaide Rowlands (pen-name...

She, who had never left the house alone or paid a bill, was now responsible for her husband's finances as well as her own, for entertaining lavishly without running in debt, and for chaperoning unmarried...

She worked on her first novel in secret and was advised by William Pett Ridge (P. R.) to send it to Sydney Pawling at Heinemann , but Pawling sent it back with a...

After her rejection by Pawling , P. R. said she should try another publisher. Arthur Waugh of Chapman and Hall liked her manuscript but judged it too outspoken because it mentioned corsets. He suggested another...