Michael Sadleir

Standard Name: Sadleir, Michael

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Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Textual Production Ellen Wood
Ten years after her death, EW 's Ashley, and Other Stories was published; the other stories were, like the title tale, drawn from The Argosy.
Ashley was serialised in volume 53 of The Argosy...
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE , as Mrs Ellis, dated the preface to her second advice book, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities.
Bibliographer Michael Sadleir , however, records a different...
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB completed the penny parts of her first novel, Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath, in the ground-breaking genre of the detective novel. Begun in February of this year, it was...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
In Paris while her husband worked on the Armistice, VSW planned with Michael Sadleir the joint editorship of a journal to be called The Critic; the journal never came into existence.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Reception Mary Ann Browne
Regrettably, bibliographer Michael Sadleir makes no mention of MAB in his piece on the Dublin University Magazine, 1838.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81.
Reception Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review judged this a novel not one of the first order, or even of the second, and its characters too darkly tinted. The two plots were not sufficiently connected and the language had...
Publishing Oscar Wilde
According to bibliographer Michael Sadleir , OW 's earliest publication was a Chorus of Cloud Maidens which appeared in the Dublin University Magazine.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81.
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Publishing Eleanor Sleath
This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
Publishing Storm Jameson
This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth and Fisher Unwin before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir at Constable . Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband 's...
Publishing Storm Jameson
SJ planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable . However, when Michael Sadleir requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann , which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Its circulation was enormous. In its three-volume form it went through eight issues in its first three months, although reviewers implied that early announcements of these new editions were a form of puffery. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir
Occupation Storm Jameson
She was introduced to Alfred and Blanche Knopf by her publisher and friend Michael Sadleir .
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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In her autobiography she comments, I wrote to every well-known author under the age of fifty. I had...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
Sadleir , noting the autobiographical element in this novel's subject-matter, judged that it eschews the cynicism and self-mockery of A Beginner in favour of a deliberate plunge into the ardours and agonies of a distant...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
As it began its course of posthumous publication, the Dublin University Magazine praised MAB for staying out of the masculine fields of analysis and abstract thought. This set a tone for later comments: as for...

Timeline

January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

Writing climate item

January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.

17 November 1958: The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection...

Writing climate item

17 November 1958

The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir , who had recently died.

Texts

Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81.
Sadleir, Michael. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Chaundy and Cox, 1922.
Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.
Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. Constable; University of California Press, 1951.