It came out in four volumes from Robinson
, but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804.
Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962.
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Robinson re-issued the novel in 1807 (calling it the third edition) and 1812. In 1809 there was an American edition at Amherst, New Hampshire and a French translation misleadingly ascribed to Ann Radcliffe
. A Dutch translation followed in 1820, a fifth London edition in 1822 from A. K. Newman (formerly the Minerva Press
), and others in 1840 and 1844. It seems to have been last reprinted at Philadelphia in 1859.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
FD
's verse drama Isola; or, The Disinherited, A Revolt for Women and All the Disinherited appeared as a serial in Young Oxford, before book publication the following year.
Dixie, Florence, and George Jacob Holyoake. Isola. Leadenhall Press, 1903.
It had already been serialized in the Lady's Pictorial from 23 January to 30 April this year.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
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Chatto and Windus
offered EHD
thirty-five pounds for the book, and wanted her to put her own name on it as a selling point. They paid no royalties, but promised half the profits on the US edition.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
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The edition published by J. B. Lippincott
at Philadelphia in 1893 is now available online (transcribed and edited by Perry Willett
) through the Victorian Women Writers Project Library
In 1981, Ananda Publishers
of Calcutta issued KKD
's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD
remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford
. She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans (one Serbian, two Russians, one half-Russian, half-Armenian). These sketches had first appeared in the mid-sixties, when they were serialized in the journal Desh.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari, and Rebecca Blasco. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 17 Feb. 2005.
NES
published at Cairo, in serial form and incomplete, her first novel (in Arabic). In English translation it became, just over thirty years later, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor.
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.
BE
's articles on life among the poor in London, which were serialised this year in the New Statesman under the same title, appeared in book form as a novel, In the Ditch, published by Barrie and Jenkins
.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
The full title was The Truth about Clement Ker: being an account of some curious circumstances connected with the life and death of the late Sir Clement Ker, Bart., of Brae House, Peeblesshire; told by his second cousin, Geoffrey Ker, of London. It had featured as a serial in Oscar Wilde
's Woman's World (after Fleming had been one of those who objected in the strongest terms to the journal's earlier title of The Lady's World).
An English edition was issued by Arrowsmith's Two-Shilling Novels of Bristol the same year with shortened title. There are several recent paperback reprints.
PF
began publishing in serial form a work based on her own life, entitled Letters from a Modern Daughter to her Mother: it appeared in book form in earlier 1931.
The volume's publication date comes from the Bodleian Library
stamp.
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.
GF
serialized in the newly founded Catholic journal The Month her faux-autobiographical novel Constance Sherwood, about persecution of Roman Catholics
during the English Reformation.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
HW
began, with the first instalment, to issue her Memoirs through John Joseph Stockdale
: four volumes followed the more numerous, briefer instalments.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
JW
began publishing the four volumes of her Poems and Plays, of which volumes three and four appeared in 1805.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
69 (1799): 881-2
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
MS
took her title from a folk-song which runs: Madam, will you walk? / Madam, will you talk? / Madam, will you walk and talk with me? (which she quotes at the head of chapter 15).
Stewart, Mary. Three Novels of Suspense: Madam, Will You Talk?; Nine Coaches Waiting; My Brother Michael. M.S. Mill Co. and Morrow, 1956.
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The novel, which she began in 1951 under the title Murder for Charity, took two years to write. She did not seriously consider sending it to a publisher until her husband
urged that it might as well be out of the house as in it.
Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson.
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She then sent it to several publishers who turned it down, but their comments did her a power of good.
Stewart, Mary. “News: Mary Stewart Writes to Hodder”. Hodder and Stoughton, edited by Hodder and Stoughton and Hodder and Stoughton.
She re-wrote and re-named it, discarding the last third of the story in the process, and then submitted the manuscript to Hodder and Stoughton
.
Stewart, Mary. “News: Mary Stewart Writes to Hodder”. Hodder and Stoughton, edited by Hodder and Stoughton and Hodder and Stoughton.
On Christmas Eve, 1953, a contract for Madam, Will You Talk? from Hodder and Stoughton
arrived in the post; they paid her fifty pounds for it.
Brown, Sir John Gilbert Newton. “Obituary: John Attenborough”. The Independent, 14 May 1994.
(14 May 1994)
Hodder did her first book proud, with an advertisement on the front page of the Times Literary Supplement that used the language of horse-racing to forecast Stewart's future success, and quoted big names in crime writing—Daphne Du Maurier
, Margery Allingham
, Patricia Wentworth
, and Victor Canning
—in praise of her first novel.
Friends and publishers had been calling on GS
to write her memoirs. She refused on grounds that it was not her type of writing—though, she said, she would not mind if Alice wanted to pursue the venture. Alice said she would think about it, but by the autumn of 1932 it was apparent that she was not going to stop gardening and knitting to begin a memoir. Seeing this, Gertrude said that she would write Alice's autobiography for her.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Vintage Books, 1990.
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Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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The Atlantic Monthly began serial publication in spring1933.With this book GS
's moment of la gloire arrived; it also brought with it the financial reward that had until now eluded her. She received $4,500 from her American publisher, Harcourt Brace
, $1,000 from the Atlantic Monthly, and $3,000 from the Literary Guild
in the year it was published (which was also the year before her lucrative lecturing tour).
Souhami, Diana. Gertrude and Alice. Pandora Press, 1991.
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Bernard Faÿ
translated this book into French in 1934; it took Paris by storm, as it had already taken its English-speaking readership.
Later in the same year as her first publication, under the same initials, MBS
contributed A Very Woman to the collaborative collection Seven Tales by Seven Authors, edited by her cousin Frank Smedley
. This collection was published in order to raise money for a poverty-stricken woman writer and her young, dependent family. During the next two decades she published a number of fiction serials in periodicals, as well as novels in volume form.
FS
's important Scenes from a Silent World; or, Prisons and their Inmates appeared in Blackwood's as five anonymous essays, before becoming a book ascribed to Francis Scougal, 1889.
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.
Another of MMS
's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on her surviving son. The British Library
does not have the first edition, but that, like the second, appeared with successive volumes (four in all) between 1822 and 1836. In the USA this was succeeded by a number of Master Henry titles.
FS
followed Castle Blair with Hector, another work of children's fiction; this was serialized in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1881,
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947.
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and printed in 1883 in book form. Next came A Sea Change, 1885, another book of stories for children.
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.
This novel was revised for volume publication from its serial form in the magazine Home Chat.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
It reached a second edition the same year, and was reprinted in 1929, 1974, and in 1981 as no. 23 in the series Barbara Cartland
's Library of Love.
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.
From 1803 to June 1804 The Boston Weekly Magazine serialised SHR
's novel Sincerity, which was re-issued in 1813 in volume form under the title Sarah; or, The Exemplary Wife.
Rowson, Susanna Haswell. “Introduction; Susanna Haswell Rowson: A Brief Chronology”. Reuben and Rachel, edited by Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Broadview, 2009, pp. 8-34.
An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips was published by instalments.
The English Short Title Catalogue remarks on the difficulty of distinguishing the first from the second edition of a work which altered in the course of production.
FMP
's acquaintance with Charlotte Yonge
began in connection with her writing for Yonge's Monthly Paper of Sunday Teaching a paper on the Jewish Sects
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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(Old Testament, no doubt), which Yonge intended to publish by the end of 1861. On one occasion Yonge temporarily mislaid one of her contributions. Peard became a regular writer for her friend's The Monthly Packet, whose contributions included in 1868 a translated serial which ran from January to June, and a poem in the February number.
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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Mitchell, Charlotte. “Charlotte Mary Yonge’s Bank Account: A Rich New Source of Information on her Work and her Life”. Women’s Writing, edited by Tamara S. Wagner, Vol.
17
, No. 2, Aug. 2010, pp. 380-0.
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Yonge requested from her for another journal, Events of the Month, a piece on Naples and Garibaldi
, in a bright style that would interest people and not insult them by supposing them too ignorant.
qtd. in
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had somehow conceived the notion that something horrible and startling ought to happen in our book, and we therefore managed to drag a peculiarly unpleasant and superfluous suicide into the story. They showed a few of their finished chapters to one of their brothers, who pronounced it not so bad after all, and well worth attempting to print.
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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They had no idea how to set about publishing, but they selected three firms to contact on the basis of their advertisements. They were twice rejected, then accepted by the generous John Blackwood
(publisher of George Eliot
and much other fiction), on condition that they should cut their work. They remained for ever afterwards grateful to him. The first incident they cut was the one about the suicide. Reata was serialized in Blackwood's Magazine before it appeared in volume form; a new edition followed the next 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.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
Blackwood's Magazine serialised the novelSingularly Deluded by the future SG
; Blackwood
published it in volume form in 1893 as by the author of Ideala: A Study from Life.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
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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.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
The first two volumes of A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances—that is, between EG
and her future husband, Richard Griffith
—were published at both Dublin and London.