With two successful collections under her belt, GE
went on to publish short stories or sketches in such journals as The Sketch.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
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She wrote to Lane on 20 February 1894 about her methods of composition. She could not, she said, work to order. I am a woman and love to go my own way. I like to write my things, then to leave them, and when a long time has gone over to take them out and re-read, cut out and change words.
qtd. in
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
33
And despite the didactic tone of her latest volume, she wrote to him two months later, I hate books with a purpose.
qtd. in
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
Two years later, William Ellis
began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
72-3
Sarah Stickney
contributed to it a biographical sketch of Felicia Hemans
, and then, the following year, another of Maria Jane Jewsbury
(whom her future husband
persuaded her to write about, although she had wanted to write in this publication on the subject of temper.. In both these pieces Stickney
describes women divided between ambition of superior intellect and the demands of family attention.
qtd. in
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Many of the poems first saw print in Cambridge journals or in Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
's Cambridge Poetry, Hogarth Press
,1929. This volume followed on a privately-printed Poems issued by the Fox and Daffodil Press
at Kinuta-mura near Tokyo in 1934, which is elegantly printed on one side of the paper only.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
She placed other early stories in such prestigious venues as the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She continues to write for the first of these and other periodicals such as the London Review of Books and the Irish Times, and her stories have appeared in several anthologies.
Moloney, Caitriona. “Anne Enright (11 October 1962-)”. Twenty-first-Century British and Irish Novelists, Gale, 2003.
Catherine Fanshawe
wrote two political verse satires which appeared anonymously in the Morning Post: Provision for a Family and Speech of the Member for Odium.
Provision for a Family had already appeared alone in 1830.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
UAF
's Observations of a Clerk (published in Poetry Review, 75, 1985) tells the story of her liberation into poetry through the irresponsibility of a really low-status job.
Fanthorpe, U. A. “Observations of a Clerk”. Poetry Review, Vol.
75
, No. 3, Oct. 1985, p. 16.
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Slow Learner, a prose account of her early life and development, appeared in Poetry Matters no. 5, edited by Harry Chambers
, in winter 1987, and is reprinted in Eddie Wainwright
's critical book, 1995. Her Scenes from a Provincial Life appeared in Country Living no. 51 in March 1990. In September 1993 she was planning two novels and a radio play.
Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets, 1995.
66ff, 75, 88
Her lecture in the Laurie Lee
memorial series was published as no. 3 in 2002 as Dymock: the time and the place.
As a child AF
learned that to write a composition was to have power, moving her words about like an army. She rejoiced in the approval of teachers, and in having her stories read aloud to the class.
Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, 1985, pp. 11-25.
13, 17
She began writing for publication while she was a student at Dumfries Academy
, when her poetry appeared in Scotland Magazine in 1962.
Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, 1985, pp. 11-25.
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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.
Temple Bar magazine printed SF
's Recollections of Sir Walter Scott
, unpublished in her lifetime.
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.
A variant form of the beginning of this novel appeared in the first issue of Blast (which was dated 20 June 1914 but was actually published 2 July 1914) under the title The Saddest Story.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1962.
Other poetry publications by CFT
include Songs of the Twilight Hours (1909, from which many verses had already appeared in Commonwealth, The Spectator, and Goodwill), and a rare, undated, illustrated broadside called Crossing the River.
MF
wrote much poetry, but for years she did not publish any of it, being too fastidious a critic of her own work.
Frere, Georgina, and Herbert Loewe. “Biographical Notice”. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, 1916, p. v - xii.
vi
Some of her poems, however, appeared anonymously in The Spectator.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
GF
's first publication appeared, a translation from French into English for Bentley's Miscellany of a poem by Jacques Jasmin
titled The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillée.
Dickens, Charles, editor. Bentley’s Miscellany. R. Bentley.
The Freeman's Journal published a letter from SG
complaining of her unfair treatment by the managers of the Capel Street Theatre
in Dublin.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson
in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They paid her £200 for the copyright. The work was reprinted at Philadelphia and serialised (after its printing in book form) as The History of an Unfortunate Royal Captive in the Weekly Entertainer.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 653
AY
's short, signed preface quotes Shakespeare
, mentions her twenty-year relationship with Fancy, and distinguishes between the lovers and the slaves of Fame. For herself she writes, I love Fame, though I have only heard her whispers.
In June 1828, on a visit to Robert Owen
's utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana, FW
became coeditor (with Owen's son Robert Dale Owen
) of the New Harmony Gazette, a free-thinking periodical designed to speak for the community, which was published in New Harmony from 9 October 1825 until 22 October 1828. She went on to buy this periodical, and from one week to the next it was transformed into The Free Enquirer, published in New York
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
She also expressed her views in political essays in the Memphis Advocate.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
EJW
's publisher James Clarke
asked her to be the founding editor of his new venture, The Christian World Magazine; she held this position for twenty-one years, relinquishing it shortly before her death.
Melnyk, Julie. “Emma Jane Worboise and The Christian World Magazine: Christian Publishing and Womens Empowerment”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
29
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 131-45.
131, 133
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.
JW
published The World and Other Places, a collection of seventeen short stories, some of which had appeared earlier in periodicals; one had aired as a radio broadcast.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Winterson, Jeanette. The World and Other Places. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
When one of RW
's teachers at Girton College
suggested that she try writing fiction, she began to imagine half seriously that I might one day write a book.
qtd. in
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996.
When she did eventually pick up her pen, the result was merely rubbish for a typewritten private magazine.
qtd. in
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
An introduction to the Evangelical publisher Alexander Strahan
while she was very young led to SW
's writing for his magazines, the illustrated monthly Good Words, the The Argosy, and The Sunday Magazine.
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
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Notable among her periodical works was a series of social sketches for Argosy entitled The Foozy Papers, written under another (and now unknown) pseudonym.
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
xiii
SW
made money during her lifetime from her writings.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.