Mary Cholmondeley

08 June 1859 - 15 July 1925

Standard Name: Cholmondeley, Mary

Birth Name: Mary Cholmondeley

Pseudonym: Pax

MC wrote mainly popular fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that was often both melodramatic and satiric. Her corpus includes novels, short stories, family memoirs, and some articles. It was largely ignored by critics for many years, but the emergence of feminist criticism led to reconsideration of her writing and its place in the New Woman movement.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Stella Benson	The novelist Mary Cholmondeley was SB 's aunt.
Friends, Associates	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Friends, Associates	Rhoda Broughton	RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...
Friends, Associates	Marie Belloc Lowndes	MBL was an early member of Mary Cholmondeley 's Give and Take Club for women writers, and a founding member of another women's luncheon club, the Thirty . This included women from all walks of...
politics	Marie Belloc Lowndes	The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
Reception	Marie Belloc Lowndes	Samuel Hynes in the Times Literary Supplement called this book a delight and its author a remarkable woman, yet he introduced his notice with some sweeping, casually sexist comment on that monstrous regiment of writing...
Textual Production	Stella Benson	SB 's first novel, I Pose, was published by Macmillan and Company , who also published the novels of her aunt Mary Cholmondeley . Bedell, R. Meredith. Stella Benson. Twayne, 1983. 3

Timeline

1898

The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son , dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan .

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Macmillan family

November-December 1906

Mediation in the Book War (of the Times Book Club against the Net Book Agreement) was attempted unsuccessfully by an unofficial committee composed of several eminent authors.

Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.

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Texts

Cholmondeley, Mary. “All is Fair in Love and War”. The Graphic.

Cholmondeley, Mary. Red Pottage. Edward Arnold, 1899.

Cholmondeley, Mary. The Danvers Jewels. R. Bentley, 1887.

Cholmondeley, Mary. “The Danvers Jewels”. Temple Bar, Vol.

, pp. 1 - 30, 161.

Cholmondeley, Mary. The Romance of His Life. John Murray, 1921.

Cholmondeley, Mary. Under One Roof. John Murray, 1918.

Cholmondeley, Mary. “Votes for Men”. The Romance of His Life, John Murray, 1921, pp. 200-15.