Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
5: 853
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Ellen Wood | EW
's first identified publication, Seven Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic appeared in Harrison Ainsworth'sNew Monthly Magazine. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 5: 853 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Wood | According to EW
's son and biographer Charles Wood
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, as proprietor of Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine, had early in her career dissuaded her from writing a... |
Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
Publishing | Ellen Wood | EW
received £60 for the serial rights to The Shadow of Ashlydyat: it was first published in the New Monthly Magazine, at that point still edited by Ainsworth
, between October 1861 and November 1863. Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. R. Bentley and Son. 262 Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry). |
Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | These witches (seven women and a man) were judicially murdered in 1612. The same incident was treated by another novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth
, in 1849 in The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest... |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Smythies | After she began her career as a novelist, HS
moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth
and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton
. Literary historian Montague Summers... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Harrison Ainsworth
, who edited the first Keepsake, admired MS
's work. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 416-17 |
Reception | Emma Robinson | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading. Athenæum. J. Lection. 844 (1843): 1159 The review is listed as by Chorley. Henry's brother John Rutter Chorley |
Residence | Ouida | Ouida
was living at Bessborough House, Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, where she met her first publisher, William Harrison Ainsworth
(then editor of Bentley's Miscellany). Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 242 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |
Publishing | Ouida | Ouida met the editor of Bentley's, William Harrison Ainsworth
, in late 1858 or early 1859. Dr Francis W. Ainsworth
, a neighbour of hers in Hammersmith, was his cousin. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Publishing | Ouida | It had been serialized in Colburn
's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth
) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 242 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 370 Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Publishing | Ouida | Ouida wanted to call this novel (first serialized in the New Monthly Magazine) The Lady of His Dreams, but was dissuaded by the Monthly's editor, William Harrison Ainsworth
. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 370 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton |