Charles De Sousy Ricketts

Standard Name: Ricketts, Charles De Sousy

Connections

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death	Michael Field	She died while trying to make her way to Mass. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap. 61 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 694 Their beloved Richmond house was set in a garden that sloped down to the nearby Thames. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap. 51 The property also featured a large fenced...

Timeline

By November 1891

James Ripley Osgood and Charles W. McIlvaine founded the publishing firm of Osgood, McIlvaine and Company at 45 Albemarle Street, London.

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 .

1894

Eragny Press was founded in London by Esther and Lucien Pissarro .

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