Charles De Sousy Ricketts

Standard Name: Ricketts, Charles De Sousy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Michael Field
She died while trying to make her way to Mass.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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The poets were buried together at St Mary Magdalen's Church in Mortlake, near their old home in Richmond. Charles Ricketts designed them a...
Friends, Associates Michael Field
MF (Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper ) met Charles Ricketts , editor of The Dial.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
37
Literary Setting Michael Field
The second play in this historical series, The Race of Leaves (set in ancient Rome at the time of the downfall of the Emperor Commodus ), appeared in print in 1901, again with illustrations by...
Publishing Michael Field
Several of these poems had appeared in the Irish Monthly, The Rosary, and The Universe.
Field, Michael. Poems of Adoration. Sands, 1912.
The purple cover designed by Charles Ricketts for this book features a stylized crucifix and altar. Below...
Publishing Ada Leverson
Her work was illustrated, by Edward Tennyson Reed , with a parody of the decorations by Charles Ricketts to Wilde's poem.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
22
Publishing Michael Field
A second edition followed in November. Vale Press reissued Fair Rosamund on its own in 1897 with illustrations by Charles Ricketts .
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
27, 245
Ricketts remained their illustrator throughout their career.
Publishing Michael Field
After this MF launched in 1898 the first of three plays planned as an ancient Roman trilogy: The World at Auction, a verse drama published with woodcut decorations by Charles Ricketts .
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
245
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Later...
Publishing Michael Field
This thin volume's green cover is adorned with images of peacocks. Inside, the book features red and black type, as well as an intricate woodcut by Charles Ricketts . The first edition consisted of two...
Reception Michael Field
This play was well received, possibly because it was published anonymously. By this time MF , as a poet, had fallen out of favour with critics.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
29
Charles Ricketts , pointing to Field's singularly humane...
Residence Michael Field
Their friend Charles Ricketts encouraged this change of address.
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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Their beloved Richmond house was set in a garden that sloped down to the nearby Thames.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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The property also featured a large fenced...

Timeline

By November 1891: James Ripley Osgood and Charles W. McIlvaine...

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By November 1891

James Ripley Osgood and Charles W. McIlvaine founded the publishing firm of Osgood, McIlvaine and Company at 45 Albemarle Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
240-1
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
359

1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...

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1893

Vale Press was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts ; its first two books were published by John Lane .
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
150
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
334
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
122
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
325
Sources vary...

1894: Eragny Press was founded in London by Esther...

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1894

Eragny Press was founded in London by Esther and Lucien Pissarro .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
120
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
319
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
109
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
151

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