William Henry Wills

Standard Name: Wills, William Henry
Used Form: W. H. Wills

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Friends, Associates Mrs Alexander
In London, Annie French joined a literary circle which included Anna Maria Hall , Eliza Lynn Linton , and W. H. Wills , co-editor of Household Words.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Linton introduced her to author Joshua Davidson
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Alexander
MA 's circle of literary friends in London were influential in the publication of Billeted in Boulogne. Anna Maria Hall , her countrywoman, introduced MA to W. H. Wills , the editor of Household...
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG 's relations with Dickens were at times quite vexed, and their clashes over editorial matters did not end here. Apropos of wrangling over the publication of Half a Life-time Ago in Household Words in...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
From HS 's detailed Log Books, the scholar Jacqueline S. Bratton has managed to reconstruct much of her early years of journalism. Bratton says these typify relations between mid-century magazines and obscure writers.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. “Hesba Stretton’s Journalism”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
12
, 1979, pp. 60-70.
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Timeline

4 June 1859: Household Words merged with Charles Dickens's...

Writing climate item

4 June 1859

Household Words merged with Charles Dickens 's new periodical All the Year Round.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990.
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