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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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.
Robert Lee Wolff notes that the influential Montague Summers mis-dated this book to 1854, and that many sources, including Michael Sadleir , follow him.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Ashley, Mike. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Author of Lady Audleys SecretBook and Magazine Collector, Vol.
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, Diamond Publishing, June 2000, pp. 78-93.
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Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
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Margaret Oliphant

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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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.

E. Nesbit

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.
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Charles Dickens

Under his pseudonym Boz, CD published in parts his first novel, The Pickwick Papers; it appeared in one volume on 17 November 1837.
The Oxford Chronology of English Literature mistakenly gives the volume publication date as 1838.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Schlicke, Paul, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.
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Mary Augusta Ward

This was serialised in the US in Century Magazine.

Rhoda Broughton

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!
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(7 June 1920): 17
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.
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, 1920, pp. 262-78.
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George Eliot

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.
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Elizabeth Gaskell

EG 's mournful tale of prostitution, Lizzie Leigh, began serialisation anonymously as the lead piece in the first issue of Household Words.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Elinor Glyn

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.
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Wilkie Collins

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.

Ellen Wood

EW 's phenomenally popular novel East Lynne was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine.
Wood, Ellen. “Introduction”. East Lynne, edited by Andrew Maunder, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-38.
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Thomas Hardy

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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hélène Barcynska

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/.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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.
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Henry James

Henry James serially published his first novel, Watch and Ward, in the Atlantic Monthly.
Edel, Leon et al. A Bibliography of Henry James. 3rd edition, Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Dinah Mulock Craik

DMC 's short novel My Mother and I: A Girl's Love Story appeared serially in Good Words; it came out as volume later that year.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Rebecca Harding Davis

The story Berrytown had appeared as a serial in Lippincott's in 1873.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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Juliana Horatia Ewing

Aunt Judy's Magazine carried JHE 's popular and influential novella about a disabled child, Lætus Sorte Meâ; or, the Story of a Short Life.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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Mary Fortune

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.
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Pearl S. Buck

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.
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Willa Cather

McClure's published in serial form WC 's revision of The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy, from papers left in unpublishable
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
condition by Georgine Milmine (later Wells) .
Cather, Willa. “A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather”. The Willa Cather Archive, edited by Andrew Jewell et al.
to Carroll Wilson, 18 March 1908
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu

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.
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Katherine Cecil Thurston

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.
4017 (22 October 1904): 546
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.

May Sinclair

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.
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