In 1900, after her return to India, PR
wrote a short introduction to Jenny (Mrs Marcus B.) Fuller
's collection of articles entitled The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood, published for the Young People's Missionary Movement
at New York and for the United Society of Christian Endeavor
at Boston, Massachusetts, as well as at Edinburgh and London, and reprinted at New Delhi in 1984. The Boston edition noted that the work was originally published in the Bombay Guardian.
BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation of Pope
), and from the same period an (unpublished) novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
SP
first began publishing her poetry during her student days, in undergraduate magazines.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19-24.
While still in her teens, AMP
published verse in several journals: her Civil Liberty appeared this month in James Harrison
's Pocket Magazine, as by A. P—r.
This information came from bibliographer Edward Pitcher
.
Between 1908 and 1950, EPL
wrote and signed many letters to the editor of the Times. They covered a variety of subjects, from women's suffrage and female labour and wages, to international issues like Abyssinian refugees, aid to Ethiopia, and Indian independence. On 21 June 1940 (following the fall of Paris to the Nazis and the first bombs on London) she wrote a letter urging the British Government to base its argument for rallying the nation in time of war on the moral issue of courage and willingness to sacrifice lives rather than the expedient one of preserving Britain's safety.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from a Lady to her Friend in England. Even more blatantly, the New Annual Register for 1790 reprinted its account of the nawab's procession as that of an actual, named ruler, said to have taken place on 7 June 1790.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
xvii-xix
Among those reading it correctly as fiction, Elizabeth Montagu
tried to discover the author, while Catherine Hutton
compared it to Frances Brooke
writing on Canada in Emily Montague. The Critical, in a two-sentence review, said: We have been much pleased with these volumes; for, in the guise of a novel, they will convey much information.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
68 (1789): 164
William Enfield
in the Monthly approved for very similar reasons.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 473
In the Analytical, Mary Wollstonecraft
found (despite a few trifling blemishes and excessive quotation of poetry) the book entertaining and vivid, with an easy style and pertinent reflections. She supposed that at least the first sketch had been done on the spot, in India.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 111-12
A politically less reformist reviewer in the English Review blamed the novel for unfairly representing members of English society in Calcutta as empty-headed pleasure-seekers.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
Two of the early books which AG
wrote for the RTS
were, as the titles explained, for very little children. Their dates, like those of many of her later works, are conjecturally supplied in the British Library Catalogue, since they appeared undated. A Visit to Aunt Agnes, published in 1864 while AG
was still in her teens, puts her readers in the position of nieces and nephews. In 1866 she published Sunday Afternoons With Mamma. Willie and Lucy at the Sea-side, 1868, offers, as its title suggests, instruction as well as amusement. Next year AG
published Hungering and Thirsting as the author of Willie and Lucy at the Sea-side. The year after that came Charity's Birthday Text, and later several more titles under this allusive label.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Hungering and Thirsting and Charity's Birthday Text also appeared in abridged form, probably in 1905, in the Bouverie Series of Penny Stories, as did Five Little Birdies, which apparently dated from 1883, and others of her works for small children.
British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Library Index. http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/0start.htm.
GG
's first published book was a volume of poems, Babbling April. He had already placed his poems in several journals, including three issues of the annual Oxford Poetry.
“Poetry”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1218, 21 May 1925, p. 355.
1218 (21 May 1925): 355
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Early in her life EHhad recourse to the pen by stealth.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 51-2
She produced a Highland travel journal which her aunt showed to people and which was then published in a magazine, and an epistolary novel about Lady Arbella Stuart
, of which extracts were posthumously published in Elizabeth Benger
's Memoirs of Hamilton.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
SH
began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she was trying to keep herself while she developed her literary career: reviewing was useful, but it was stories for women's magazines that enabled her to build up a nest-egg.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(8 June 1978): 12
She continued long after this to work in journalism and broadcasting. She reviewed for The Times from 1974 (writing often about fiction by women, though she disavowed any commitment to the hothouse female novel.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(27 February 1975): 12
In 1977 she began writing a books column for the Daily Telegraph.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
139
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She presented BBC Radio 4
's reviewing programme, Bookshelf, from 1986 to 1987. In the early twenty-first century she is still contributing pieces to periodicals, like Proof of the pudding, in the Guardian on Christmas Eve 2005, about a charity called Book Crisis
, which provides new books for homeless people to read.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hill, Susan. “Proof of the pudding”. The Guardian, 24 Dec. 2005, p. Review 2.
While living at Mhow in Indore, Hope began to write poetry once more, giving her work to friends or publishing it anonymously in the journals of local clubs. It was here that she wrote the material that would form her first publication, The Garden of Káma. Her husband
, who was the commanding officer of the Western Command based in Mhow, seems to have known about Hope's writing (despite rumours to the contrary), and apparently commented to a friend: My wife had quite a knack of expressing deep emotion and certain phases of native life.
qtd. in
Blanch, Lesley. Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star: Travels and Travellers. John Murray, 1963.
197-8
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Marx, Edward. The Idea of a Colony. University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Most likely MCH
's earliest publication was the unsigned story Katerina, the Dwarf of the Jungfernstieg in Bentley's Miscellany.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH
wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion play was the first in English.
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
186
In the same year that her first book appeared, she also contributed to the Illustrated Exhibitor, the Illustrated Magazine of Art, and to the Dusseldorf Artists' Album edited by Mary Howitt
, where her poetry appeared together with that of Dante Gabriel
and Christina Rossetti
and Bessie Rayner Parkes
. At New Year 1857, the Athenæum printed her memoir of the recently-dead Thomas Seddon
, which Holman Hunt
had discussed with her the previous week. In 1861 she contributed a poem to Adelaide Procter
's Victoria Regia.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
This poem was reprinted from the Swedenborgian Intellectual Repository.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
As a member of Somerville
's Mutual Admiration Society MJ
must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers
in writing, and performing in, the 1915 going-down or graduation play entitled Pied Pipings, or the Innocents Abroad (even though while Sayers was going down, Jaeger was staying an extra, fourth year at university). She sent Sayers a sonnet of her composition in September 1915. By October 1918 she was apparently a reviewer for the Church Times, for which she offered to cover Sayers's Catholic Tales and Christian Songs.
Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim ’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.
17
, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59.
47
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Editor Reynolds, Barbara, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
PDJ
made her first appearance in print when she won a short-story contest while still at school; her story was published in the school magazine of Cambridge High School for Girls
.
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986.
2
James, P. D. Time to Be in Earnest. Faber and Faber, 1999.
44
She wished to be a novelist from childhood, but an early marriage, motherhood, and her husband's mental illness prevented her from realising her ambitions until later in life. Nearing her fortieth birthday, she determined to begin her writing career before the opportunity was forever lost.