Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
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Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | Prevented by her eyesight from pursuing a career in art, she turned to writing, setting out with stories for magazines. Her low output has been attributed to her being indolent or a procrastinator or both.... |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
may have had affairs with several literary men: Henry Harland
, her editor; John Lane
, her publisher; and M. P. Shiel
, who, like her, contributed to Lane's Keynotes series. The possibility that... |
Friends, Associates | Ella D'Arcy | Lane
and Harland
were centres of literary social life in London. EDA
had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp
, and Constance Smedley
(who found her entirely sincere... |
Publishing | Victoria Cross | VC
began her literary career by sending manuscripts of the novel The Refiner's Fire and short story Different Views to publisher John Lane
. Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 16 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Victoria Cross | Reviews of Theodora were mixed. Janet Hogarth
, in a Fortnightly Review article titled Literary Degenerates, and B. A. Crackanthorpe
in Nineteenth Century, criticised the story's representation of sexual desire. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 135 |
Publishing | Victoria Cross | Little of the critical speculation about the genealogy of The Woman Who Didn't has been confirmed. Charlotte Mitchell
posits that the risqué subject matter of the novel VC
produced after signing a contract with Lane |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot), was published in London by John Lane
at Bodley Head
and copyrighted as 1920. Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte. 9-10 |
Publishing | Agatha Christie | It was rejected by six publishers before Lane
contracted for it, paying AC
no advance or royalties until two thousand five hundred copies had been sold. She earned £25 in all from this edition. The... |
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