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Noel Streatfeild
In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on
.Madeleine de Scudéry
Paris (under her
's name and in successive volumes) her most famous romance, Artamène; ou, Le grand Cyrus.
published at Elizabeth Robins
It had been running as a serial in Century Magazine since 1906.
Samuel Richardson
Clarissa.
published the first two volumes of his second epistolary novel, Ouida
It had been serialized in New Monthly Magazine (then edited by
) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863. With Ouida's consent the title was changed to Held in Bondage, and
paid her £80 for its publication. In November 1880 she wrote to The Times to protest in the strongest manner possible against an illicit theatrical adaptation of this work. This was by no means her only outcry against the practice of stage piracy.
's Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Invited to contribute a serial adventure story (not a detective piece) to the newly launched Daily Express, she proposed the French Revolution story which eventually became The Scarlet Pimpernel, only to be told by the editor that her story absolutely must be modern. The result was The Shamrock, set in turn-of-the-century Russia, which she never reprinted in volume form.
Frances Sarah Hoey
Buried in the Deep, a novella serialised in Chambers's Journal.
anonymously published what was probably her first work of fiction, Elspeth Huxley
Because of her mother's impending retirement, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and A New Earth. It was illustrated by
, whom
first met on this Kenyan journey. She sent a copy to
(now Prime Minister of Kenya). He did not promise to read it, but said he anticipated glancing through it. The book was serialised in both the Liverpool Daily Post and the Johannesburg Sunday Chronicle.
wrote with comic exasperation about her experiences doing publicity appearances on television to promote it.
meant this to be her last book on Kenya. It was to mix travel with politics in the manner of Jean Ingelow
Her other work for periodicals included both articles and serializations in Saint Pauls and Longman's Magazine. She is also listed as a contributor to The Argosy.
F. Tennyson Jesse
She earned fifteen guineas for this piece. It became quite popular, but rumours spread that it was written by English Review, sent her a letter to ask if she were a man or a woman, and invited her to come and see him. She impressed him with her wit and intelligence, so he introduced her to the owner of the paper,
.
later wrote that from then onwards
and
were goodness itself to me and became dear friends.The Mask was serialized in New York's The Forum. It was also translated widely, adapted for film and tv, and became a one-act play of the same title, adapted in collaboration with her husband and published in his Three One-Act Plays, 1926. It was also performed under the title The Black Mask at the
in London in December 1912.
.
, editor of the James Joyce
The Egoist serialised
's autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: the serialisation began during the brief editorship of
.
Rudyard Kipling
The book was serialised in the Strand, where the first instalment appeared alongside one from
's The Story of the Amulet, the last of a trilogy featuring children who travel back in time to different historical cultures. Kipling had written Nesbit fan letters about the earlier books in the trilogy, but she now accused him of plagiarism and their friendship broke off.
Eliza Lynn Linton
Patricia Kemball appeared serially in Temple Bar. It was then published in three volumes, bearing the next year's date.
's novel or romance entitled Florence Marryat
'Gup', Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character, 1868, and her Life and Letters of Captain , 1872. 'Gup' appeared serially in Temple Bar before being printed in a volume. The first word in the title comes from the Hindu word for gossip, and
wrote it without benefit of notes or written records of her time in India. She gave her sister
full credit for her invaluable help with the research for the Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. (This was before they quarrelled.) In 1893 she edited The Clairvoyance of , an account of her career by a well-known spiritualist medium (also known as
from her husband's name), who had, besides, featured in There Is No Death. This book was billed on its title-page as related by herself, so that the role
claimed for herself was that of ghost-writer or transcriber.
's non-fiction works include the travel book Sarah Murray
The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother.
signed the preface to the otherwise anonymous first volume of Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise
); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration of the after-effects of adultery, also serialized in Nash's Magazine and Delineator); and her Father in 1931 (a town-and-country story of father-daughter relations, and an American Book-of-the-Month-Club choice). After this
published the rest of her novels with
, beginning with The Jasmine Farm in 1934.
's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable.
published her Margaret Atwood
This book famously began in the form of a serial entitled Positron, published online with
. As a volume it is dedicated to
,
, and
, [a]nd for
, as ever.
Henrietta Battier
The Kirwanade, or Poetical Epistle, a political lampoon; the second edition or re-issue called her Patt. Pindar.
issued two instalments (she promised another, which seems not have appeared) of E. Owens Blackburne
A Woman Scorned, was published under her pseudonym in three volumes in London. The Nation had previously published it serially in the early 1870's as In at the Death.
's first novel, Isa Blagden
A Tuscan Wedding, a short story by
, was published in Once a Week: An Illustrated Miscellany, in five chapters.
Ann Eliza Bleecker
The History of Maria Kittle, an epistolary novel which draws on actual life, appeared posthumously in serial form in the New-York Magazine.
's Enid Blyton
A regular feature was a serially-continued story. The first of these, The Adventures of the Wishing Chair, appeared in volume form by the end of the year and did very well. In its new form Sunny Stories continued until February 1953.
Catherine Carswell
Parts of The Life of (published this month and dedicated to her husband,
, and to
) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record and Sunday Mail.
's critical biography Charlotte Charke
A Narrative of her life, which she said she had begun writing about five years earlier.
published in instalments This kind of serialisation, in a series of pamphlets rather than normal-sized volumes, had been used by the scandal-memoirist
.May Crommelin
Over the Andes, from the Argentine to Chile and Peru was published in volume form after serialization through all twelve 1895 issues of Leisure Hour.
's travel book