Robert William Chapman

Standard Name: Chapman, Robert William
Used Form: R. W. Chapman

Connections

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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jenkins
In her day EJ knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie , whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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She counted among her...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jenkins
The earliest reviews, said EJ , were not encouraging and some were both tepid and denigratory . . . because [the reviewers] felt it was a dead bore to have to read about Jane Austen...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Jenkins
At this date, said EJ later, there was, astonishingly, no complete life, including chronological discussion of works, of Jane Austen. Modern scholarship, however, had just begun, largely in the work of R. W. Chapman ...
Occupation May Cannan
MC went back to work at Oxford University Press , at the invitation of R. W. Chapman , helping on the weekly Oxford Magazine.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, p. Various pages.
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Occupation Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ was one of the founders of the Jane Austen Society , launched in 1940. She campaigned for the purchase (achieved in 1947) of the cottage at Chawton in Hampshire where Austen lived for her...
Publishing Jane Austen
JA was a great family letter-writer. She wrote letter-chronicles to her sister whenever they were apart, and letters of literary advice to her several young relations who attempted novel-writing. As late as 1870 her descendants...
Publishing Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP was a voluminous letter-writer all her life. Though scholarly estimates differ, there is no doubt that thousands of her letters survive. The first selection appeared in print in 1833. Many early editions, however, had...
Reception Jane Austen
Modern criticism of Austen, now remarkably rich and varied, may be seen as having begun with a monograph by Mary Lascelles , Jane Austen and her Art, 1939, which was also the first to...
Reception Jane Austen
In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...
Textual Features Catherine Hubback
The younger sister is Emma Watson, who has been educated away from home, and who on returning to her impoverished family finds herself out of sympathy with her elder sisters' quest to attract husbands. As...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
A TLS review by R. W. Chapman sounded distinctly anti-feminist. He wrote that by employing heroic remedies, the indomitable editor has cut away all the elaborate openings and studied conclusions, masses of domestic detail, nine-tenths...

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Texts

Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press, 1952.
Chapman, Robert William. Jane Austen: Facts and Problems. Clarendon Press, 1949.
Boswell, James, and John David Fleeman. Life of Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press, 1965.
Johnson, Samuel, and Hester Lynch Piozzi. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Clarendon Press, 1984.