AS
was writing poetry at the age of nine. She went on as an adult to publish several volumes of verse. Her first poem to appear on its own instead of in a magazine (in late 1817) was in a genre unfortunately popular for the moment: a Monody on the Death of Princess Charlotte.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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She contributed frequently to literary annuals including Friendship's Offering, the Keepsake, the Gem, and the New Year's Gift.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
The title-page of this travel book gave its publication date as 1893. It bore no names: the writers identified themselves only as the Authors of An Irish Cousin. The stories (which were to be chapters in the final book) had been commissioned to appear serially in The Lady's Pictorial during 1891, at a fee of four pounds a story.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
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The book was written up afterwards from diaries kept on the road, with some omissions and some fictional additions.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Anne Thackeray
's first novel, the anonymous The Story of Elizabeth, was serialized in the Cornhill Magazine alongside George Eliot
's Romola.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. iii - xxxii.
CR
published in volume form another novel both somewhat sensational and sentimental, The Race for Wealth, under her married name of Mrs. J. H. Riddell, after a serial appearance in Once a Week.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2030 (1866): 363
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
Sixteen-year-old MPD
's first novel, The Shoreless Sea, was published in instalments in the Daily Mirror. Her aim was to make money to help support herself and her mother.
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.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
JOH
's longest work to date, The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham, appeared in book form after first being serialized in the Pall Mall Budget.
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911.
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.
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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.
GA
regularly printed short fiction, including strong narratives of Jewish suffering under the Spanish Inquisition
, in the Christmas gift booksFriendship's Offering, the The Keepsake, and the Book of Beauty.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
MA
's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns
, appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new pseudonym.
In the song, Duncan Gray, Maggie resists the lovesick Duncan until he appears to lose interest, whereupon she in her turn falls in love and he magnanimously accepts her. MA
takes as her title the narrator's repeated, amused comment on this courtship story.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 14, 17, 24
The 1841 edition (published with her married name in hopes of increased sales) features an engraved frontispiece taken from her sketch of the church where she married Robert Southey
.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
published another successful novel: The Caxtons, A Family Picture, first serialised in Blackwood's Magazine.
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.
RNC
published in three volumes Heriot's Choice: a Tale, which had first appeared serially in the Monthly Packet (edited by Charlotte Yonge
), between 1877 and this year.
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.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hartnell, Elaine. Gender, Religion, and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey. Ashgate, 2000.
In the 1870s IC
's direct involvement with the feminist movement subsided, but she continued to publish in a variety of venues and genres. She issued several novels serially in this decade, some of which were subsequently brought out in volume form.
All the Year Round published MAD
's best-known novel, Cross Currents, in serial form. Chapman and Hall
issued the novel in three volumes during the same year.
Bassett, Troy J. “Title Information at the Circulating Library”. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901.
This work marked her transition from journalism to book-length projects. The story was based on a series of articles she had written about this trip and was first serialized in The Globe and in The Lady's Pictorial (in England). The book was published by Chatto and Windus
in England, and in the US by D. Appleton
, who brought out their edition on 3 May.
Dean, Misao, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. A Daughter of Today, Tecumseh Press, 1988, p. iv - xxii.
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Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
She also wrote for The Red Magazine: for instance, Law and Order and Three, which appeared as numbers four and six in a series entitled The Proverbial Penny. More than forty identified contributions by her are listed in The FictionMags Index: short stories, articles, and instalments of collaboratively-authored fictions, for Argosy, Ainslee's, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, the Strand Magazine, Pearson's, and the Happy Mag for children.
Contento, William G. “The FictionMags Index”. Homeville Bibliographic Resources, 31 Oct. 2004.
MOW
anonymously published in the Massachusetts Spy the first instalment of her patriotic, or pro-independence, one-act play The Adulateur, an attack on Governor Thomas Hutchinson
.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
Publication began of ES
's best-known work, a twelve-volume collaborative study with her sister Agnes which bore Agnes's name only: Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest.