MEB
completed the penny parts of her first novel, Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath, in the ground-breaking genre of the detective novel. Begun in February of this year, it was later reissued as The Trail of the Serpent.
MO
's novel Katie Stewart appeared as a serial (her first) in Blackwood's, to launch her long and fruitful relationship with William Blackwood
, famous Edinburgh publisher.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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From early in her marriage EN
began writing seriously for periodicals, for the sake of the income she could bring in. She submitted work in prose and poetry to the radical Weekly Dispatch, The Argosy, Sylvia's Home Journal (which brought her acquainted with Alice Hoatson
), and many other papers.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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After a while Hubert Bland
began collaborating on the stories she was commissioned to write. One serial, The Social Cobweb, which ran from January to March 1884 in twelve episodes relating five linked stories, brought them three pounds a week during that time from the Dispatch, which was not particularly high-paying. Julia Briggs
suspects that they wrote week by week, without any advance plan for resolving their plot.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
During these years FHBchurned out stories written to a formula, about temporary difficulties in the romances of elegant, upper-class heroines. She moved into other magazines besides Godey's, and published her first serial over four months from September 1870 in Peterson's Monthly Magazine.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
When she read two chapters of it to her uncle Sheridan Le Fanu
, his response was: You will succeed, and when you do, remember that I prophesied it!
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He agreed to serialise the novel in the Dublin University Magazine, and paid her £5 for doing so—a sum which, as Broughton noted with amusement, was the precise amount which Milton
received for Paradise Lost.
Arnold, Ethel. “Rhoda Broughton as I Knew Her”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
The first part of GE
's The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton appeared anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; the second and final part followed the next month.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
Scottish Life printed the first set of EG
's fashionarticles, which she framed as weekly letters from Suzon to Grizelda. These formed a series entitled Les coulisses de l'élégance, published as by Mrs. Glyn.
Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson, 1968.
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Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994.
Perhaps anticipating its success, the novel was simultaneously serialised in both England (in Dickens'sAll the Year Round) and the US (in Harper's Weekly).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
TH
published with Tinsley
his third novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes (the first to bear his name), before the final instalment appeared in Tinsley's Magazine.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
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She persevered, however. She names about ten editors, male and female, who took her work at this time, sometimes offering advice as well as payment: a piece for the Sphere won her ten guineas from Clement Shorter
. She earned fifty pounds in a few months, but spent it all, and while she lived with her parents they pressured her against a writing career.
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett, 1941.
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When she progressed to full-length novels, many of them first appeared as women's-magazine serials, through the agency of Amalgamated Press
editor Winifred Johnson
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
CPG
's novel What Diantha Did—whose title refers to the popular girls' story What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
)—was published serially in her own journal, the Forerunner.
Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
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Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, 1985.
MF
, under her pseudonym Waif Wander, began the serial publication of her first novel, Bertha's Legacy, in The Australian Journal.
Sussex, Lucy, and Elizabeth Gibson. Mary Helena Fortune ("Waif Wander" / "W.W."), c. 1833-1910: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1998.
Not all reviewers approved of Sons, but it sold phenomenally (80,000 copies the first month) and brought in $30,000 for serialization by Cosmopolitan. A House Divided was less successful, perhaps because it is so transparently didactic.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
Marie-Catherine Desjardins
published the opening two volumes of a long novel or romance which she never returned to finish, entitled Alcidamie.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
Most of KCT
's novels were also serialized before they appeared in book form. These appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Daily Mail, Lady's Realm, or Harper's Bazaar.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
MS
's The Helpmate began serial publication in the Atlantic Monthly (which, in view of its sexual content, was a remarkable event); in August it appeared in book form.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.