This makes her ten years older than the date given in some sources, like Shattock
and Sutherland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Birth
Helen Mathers
Ellen Mathews (who later wrote as HM
) was born in Misterton, near Crewkerne in Somerset, according to the date given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Earlier sources (like The...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
In 1997 British publisher Adam Matthew
published the microform collection Oliphant: The Correspondence and Literary Manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), which includes her correspondence with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine as well as many letters relating...
Reception
Elizabeth Gaskell
The first critical edition of EG
's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock
. It includes previously unpublished materials including some...
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Texts
Bennett, Scott. “Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading”. The Victorian Periodical Press: Soundings and Samplings, edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, University of Leicester Press; University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 225-57.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Editors Shattock, Joanne et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, 10 vols.