She also placed her work, before the appearance of her first book, in the New English Weekly, the Spectator, Poetry Review, and Outposts, which last she called that great encourager of young talent.
qtd. in
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
Before the appearance of her first book MJ
had contributed to the Funky Black Women's Journal, which seems not to have been noted by mainstream library catalogues.
Jin, Meiling, and Hiang Kee. Gifts from My Grandmother. Sheba Feminist, 1985.
PHJ
wrote introductions for the Norton
edition of Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1962, and for Cecil Woolf
's and Brocard Sewell
's volume of essays entitled Corvo
, 1860-1960, 1961. She contributed in the early 1960s to Essays and Studies of the English Association and to Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, as well as to non-academic periodicals like the Liverpool Post, John O'London's Weekly, The Spectator, and the Washington Post.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
MJ
's elegy Epistle to the Right Honourable Lady Aubrey Beauclerk, in memory of her Lord (who was slain on board the Prince Frederick Man of War at Carthagena, March 1741), was reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine.
This was submitted in the court hearing about her divorce and the custody of her daughters. A purloined copy of the Narrative was printed in American and British newspapers, but it won her little support.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
ML
published her satirical collection, Apologies. Many pf these squibs had appeared previously in papers and magazines such as The Observer, Vogue, Punch, The Spectator, and Time and Tide.
Laski, Marghanita, and Anton. Apologies. Harvill Press, 1955.
The young ML
placed a ludicrous advertisement, in verse in the Reading Mercury (owned by the London publisher John Newbery
) to deny that she was the author of lampoons on the persons and characters of local ladies.
Baker, David Erskine. Biographia Dramatica. AMS Press, 1966, 3 vols.
As a child and teenager, Margaret Wemyss (later ML
) was constantly writing stories and poems. She destroyed most of this writing (of which her aunt/stepmother, Margaret Wemyss
, was both an inspiration and a useful critic). Some of it, however, was published in her highschool newspaper and later in Vox at the United College of Winnipeg
and in The Manitoban at the University of Manitoba
. These juvenilia have been collected and edited by Nora Foster Stovel
in two publications from the Juvenilia Press
: Embryo Words, 1997, and Colours of Speech, 2000.
Laurence, Margaret. Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Editor Stovel, Nora Foster, Juvenilia Press, 1997.
Laurence, Margaret. Colours of Speech: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Editor Stovel, Nora Foster, Juvenilia Press, 2000.
Over the course of her writing career, ML
produced various articles on psychic or occult matters, Spiritualism, and ghostly happenings.
Lawrence, Margery. Ferry over Jordan. Robert Hale, 1944.
6
Near the end of 1941, she wrote on Spiritualism for Psychic News, edited by Maurice Barbanell
. She received many letters in response to these articles (as she had for The Bridge of Wonder).
Lawrence, Margery. Ferry over Jordan. Robert Hale, 1944.
6
In 1953 she described in her Foreword to Robert Thurston Hopkins
's Ghosts over England her participation in several clearings of haunted places.
qtd. in
Clute, John, and John, 1949 - Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press, 1997.
Francis Russell Nixon
, the first Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, encouraged her to publish her poems, and before her departure for England in March 1853 she received confirmation that they would appear in book form. Her doctor, James W. Agnew
, had already sent several of her poems to the local gazette without Leakey's knowledge, and there were many requests for the book in Hobart Town before it appeared.
Mead, Jenna. “Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship”. Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, 1993, pp. 198-16.
205-6
Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, 1966–2025, 16 vols.
5
Her title identifies her sojourn in Tasmania as exile, since it comes from Psalm 137, in which the exiled Israelites demand, How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
From the age of eight RL
spent whole mornings writing (verse dramas, epics, lyrics and narrative poems,
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
27
as well as sketches and novellas). But later she cast them on the flames as juvenilia.
qtd. in
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969.
81
She had a childhood poem published in Little Folks magazine, then a teenage one in the Cornhill. After this Cornhill took to turning down the steady stream of further writings with which she bombarded it; but once she reached Cambridge
she began publishing poems in Granta (which her father had founded) and The Cambridge Review.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
Some of DL
's poetry reached print for the first time, in Poetry Quarterly.
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
SL
began her writing career with contributions to The Family Magazine. Her first publication was said to be a poem which appeared around 1838, when she was just fourteen years old.
Mainiero, Lina, editor. American Women Writers. Vol. II, Unger, 1979, 5 vols.
2: 572
Walsh, Thomas. “Stella and Her Brooklyn Salon”. The Bookman, Vol.
56
, No. 5, Jan. 1923, pp. 578-83.
580
Another of her earliest poems was The Ruins of Palenque which appeared in New World. She continued with works in the Democratic Review.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Harper and Brothers, 1855.
727
Her articles address American art and travel, among other topics. She also undertook translations of Virgil
.
Mainiero, Lina, editor. American Women Writers. Vol. II, Unger, 1979, 5 vols.
2: 572
Among her early pieces is The Forsaken, the poem that purportedly first drew the attention of Edgar Allan Poe
.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
466
Ingram, John Henry. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions. AMS Press, 1971.
IL
not only used this month to title the earliest dated poem in her volume of 1814, but on this day contributed anonymously to the Westmorland Advertiser, or Kendal Chronicle.
Lickbarrow, Isabella. Poetical Effusions. Printed for the authoress by M. Branthwaite; sold by J. Richardson, 1814.
In preparation for writing this play, EL
corresponded with the secretary of the Anti-Sweating League
, J. J. Mallon
, about the labour conditions of women outworkers.
Cockin, Katharine, and Jo Campling. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: the Pioneer Players 1911-1925. Palgrave, 2001.
94
The play was published before its performance, in the May 1911 issue of Nineteenth Century and After.
Her journalism, on topics like women's work and women's education, appeared in US periodicals such as Good Housekeeping and Wide Awake, and in Canadian periodicals such as The Canadian Monthly and National Review (later Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review), Queen's Quarterly, and The Week, in addition to a variety of religious publications. She regularly used the pseudonym Fidelis for periodical publications, and wrote over one hundred articles in the years between 1872 and 1896.
Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, 1996, p. vii - xxiv.
xxii
Gerson, Carole, editor. Canada’s Early Women Writers. http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/5724.
National Library of Canada, editor. Celebrating Women’s Achievements. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/index-e.html.
EKM
wrote a letter to the Times (Alpinists and the Matterhorn: A Symbol of the Eternal) to protest in the strongest terms against the proposal to build a cable-car up the Matterhorn.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone
's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1215 (1851): 166
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
AM
first wrote her imaginary seventeenth-century diary for the amusement of her sisters, then sent it to a brother in Australia, who was starting a local magazine.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
213
It was then serialised in Sharpe's London Magazine (whose new series had been launched in 1845) before publication in volume form. Its first appearance in the USA, also in 1849, was in the Boston periodical Littell
's Living Age. Its popularity is witnessed by a whole stream of new editions. In 1859 AM
published a sequel in the form of a diary kept by Deborah
, daughter of John and Mary Milton: Deborah's Diary. (Deborah was born in 1652 and her mother died shortly afterwards.) The two books were re-issued together in 1898 with an introduction by W. H. Hutton
, and then again in 1908 as number 324 of Everyman's Library, under the title Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
A column by Constance, Countess Markievicz,
entitled The Woman in the Garden began to appear regularly in the Irish women's journal, Bean na h-Eireann.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.