Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin.
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Friends, Associates | May Laffan | She exchanged letters with both George Augustin Macmillan
and Sir George Grove
. Her social circle while she was visiting London included a surprisingly large number of literary names. Rhoda Broughton
was a friend of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Laffan | She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove
, editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the... |
politics | May Laffan | Her correspondence with her editor George Augustin Macmillan
includes frequent criticism of British policy and political leaders. The letters have unfortunately since been destroyed—likely by Macmillan himself, as in a letter written on 24 October... |
Publishing | Mary Kingsley | MK
approached George Macmillan
, her uncle Charles
's publisher, with the manuscript The Bights of Benin. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin. 91 |
Publishing | May Laffan | ML
allusively published Ismay's Children, which was her last novel to see print in volume form—it may have been previously serialised—and probably written years before this. Helena Kelleher Kahn
finds evidence that this work... |
Reception | May Laffan | Writing to her publisher George Augustin Macmillan
in 1878, ML
celebrated the effects of her work. She rejoiced that it was bought by everybody—and had the good effect of reforming the constitution of ever so... |
Textual Production | May Laffan | Chapman and Hall
published ML
's novella A Singer's Story, as by the author of Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor. This was her single work in the moral tale genre, and probably her... |
Textual Production | May Laffan |
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