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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Among recent commentarors, White implies that both GE
's publisher, John Lane
, and his reader, Richard Le Gallienne
, were attracted to her, while Stetz suggests, without denying their attraction, that GE
deliberately engaged... |
Publishing | George Egerton | After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 28 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | Pleased with the book's success, Lane
introduced a fiction series named after it: Keynotes. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 91 |
Reception | George Egerton | GE
tended not to read reviews of her works: she claimed to have a kind of contempt for English criticisms. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 32 |
Publishing | George Egerton | Her friendship with Lane
, who published this collection, began to sour over the course of its writing. In a letter to him on 10 November 1896, GE
acknowledged that the volume might not be... |
Publishing | George Egerton | GE
's publishing relationship with Lane
ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head
's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards
(who like her had published in... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | In a letter written to her second husband
on 16 August 1906, GE
mentions an autobiography which she was writing for publication but which never appeared: I think if it were finished, Murray
or someone... |
Reception | George Egerton | Both lauded and lambasted, GE
was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire. Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press. 188 |
Textual Production | George Egerton | GE
published a fourth volume of stories in John Lane
's Keynotes series, this one entitled Fantasias, dedicated to Richard Le Gallienne
, with a title-page date of 1898. It was advertised among Books... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | John Lane
, at the Bodley Head
, included a rather self-consciously clever sketch by GE
in the first issue of The Yellow Book, Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 28 Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus. 131 |
Publishing | George Egerton | John Lane
published GE
's first translation: Ola Hansson
's allegorical prose poems entitled Young Ofeg's Ditties, Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 97 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
(publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA
. The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
's last book was her translation into English of Ariel, the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley
written by André Maurois
, published, like her other books, by John Lane
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 43576 (15 February 1924): 17 Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy. |
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.... |
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