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Diana Athill

An earlier title for the work in progress had been Child's Play. Despite her age Athill embarked on an energetic publicity schedule of interviews and an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival. The book was also serialized after publication. She was pleased with the jacket and illustrations, but horrified that the publisher had dropped (apparently through carelessness, not purposely) the dedication to her cousin Barbara. She commented, too, on the difficulties of choosing a publication date close to Christmas, navigating around the annual stock-taking.
Athill, Diana. Letters to a Friend. Norton, 2012.
189, 208, 213

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy

The History of Adolphus, Prince of Russia began as an interpolation in MCA 's romance L'histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas, which was itself published in French in 1690 and not translated into English in its entirety until 1708 (below). The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady — Travels into Spain (translated from the first two parts of Relation du voyage d'Espagne, 1691, and generally known as The Lady's Travels into Spain) began with a long, descriptive title (The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady — Travels into Spain. Describing the devotions, manners, humours, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people. Intermixt with great variety of modern adventures, and surprising accidents: being the truest and best remarks extant on that court and countrey). It was quickly joined by an English version of its third part, and went through more than ten editions or reprints during the next fifty years. A edition which reprints (with modernised spelling) a version of 1692 appeared in 1930. It was serialised in January 1726 to April 1727 in Parker's Penny Post.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol.
27
, 1975, pp. 237-53.
252

Rudy M. Ayres

Throughout her career RMA continued to write for the periodical press. Her short story The Professor and the Blue Stocking was accepted for print soon after she was married. Not long afterwards the Daily Chronicle and the Daily Mirror, as well as women's magazines, began commissioning serial fiction from her. In the last years of her life she was running a problem column in Home Companion.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Enid Bagnold

It was also serialized in Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. EB fought with her magazine publishers over the title. Against her wishes, the book appeared in Ladies' Home Journal under the title Birth and was published by Morrow as The Door of Life.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
135-7
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Joanna Baillie

JB published, anonymously, the first instalment in her planned dramatic sequence, A Series of Plays on the Passions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
24 (1798): 13

Mary Anne Barker

Her name appeared on the volume (published by Routledge ) as Lady Broome. This book had run as a serial in the Boy's Own Paper from 1 October to 31 December 1887. MAB had got to know Timperley and admired his spirit and self-reliance. He had arrived in Australia as a youngster of good family in England, to find that the man who had promised him a job had died. Finding himself in a new world with no contacts and no marketable skills, he had buckled down to hard work and had done well. MAB worked at her editing while she was at sea travelling from Western Australia to England.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
299-300, 306

Sir J. M. Barrie

James Barrie 's sixth novel, The Little White Bird (also serialized this year), was published in book form; in it the character Peter Pan made his first appearance.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
54-5

Isabella Beeton

The first of 24 parts of The Book of Household Management, by the young IB , appeared.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
20-1
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.

Arnold Bennett

Having begun as a journalist, AB remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther..
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett. Knopf, 1974.
186-7
During the first world war, he wrote a series of articles on war (which ran nearly the whole duration of the conflict) for the Daily News. Because of these articles, the LiberalCabinet summoned him to London for political consultation, and by 1915 he had worked as a front-line government propagandist in France, describing conditions at the Front.
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett. Knopf, 1974.
211-12, 218
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
During the last year of the first world war Bennett was a prolific contributor to newspapers. In the years after the war, his contributions to journals and magazines steeply dropped off, but they began to pick up again after he met Dorothy Cheston in 1922.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
25

Phyllis Bentley

This novel, more popular in style than many of PB 's, sold almost a quarter of a million copies. It was a selection of Oldham's Companion Book Club and was serialized in the magazine Woman.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998.
27

Phyllis Bottome

It was serialized in the American Century Magazine.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
397

Ann Bridge

While constantly dodging over to Burgos
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. McGraw-Hill, 1968.
55
and to San Sebastian and other places during the civil war, she had carried out intensive and careful investigations which went into this story.
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. McGraw-Hill, 1968.
56
The resulting book was serialized in the Chicago Tribune (bringing her $2,500).
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. McGraw-Hill, 1968.
128
It went through several editions and was translated into sixteen languages.

Selina Bunbury

It was illustrated with wood engravings and re-issued at Dublin the following year.. In an introductory epistle addressed to her publishers, she expresses pride in the talents of native Irish printing and illustration that went into the production,
Bunbury, Selina. Coombe Abbey. H. Lea, 1844.
vii
in a style that would not disgrace the first houses in London, and might set an example to other Irish manufactures.
qtd. in
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
85
The stereotype plates were purchased from the original publisher, William Curry of Dublin, and issued in penny weekly numbers.
“Selina Bunbury”. The Irish Book Lover, Vol.
vii
, No. 6, Jan. 1916, pp. 105-7.
106
The first of these penny numbers was given away free with issue number 142 of Home Magazine; alternatively, one could buy the whole book bound in cloth for four shillings. Advertisements for this and other work by Bunbury, as well as other works published by Henry Lea , appear in the margins of the novel at right angles to the rest of the text.
Bunbury, Selina. Coombe Abbey. H. Lea, 1844.
16-17

Sarah Harriet Burney

SHB published two short novels grouped under a single title: Tales of Fancy.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
195n1, 217n2

Dorothea Primrose Campbell

Constance Walker has identified six tales by DPC in the pages of The Ladies' Monthly Museum, one of them a serial. Most are written in a style of pathos; four are set in Campbell's native Shetland, featuring its harsh conditions and dangerous rocky coastline, with shipwrecks, press gangs, and pirates.
Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
21
, No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 592-08.
597

Barbara Cartland

BC was in the habit of dictating two books (of about 50,000 words) per month, or about 23 titles a year. When secretaries failed to keep up with her she turned to a dictaphone; she dictated while reclining on a sofa. She said, I wanted the money.
Severo, Richard. “Romance queen pens final chapter”. Edmonton Journal, 22 May 2000, p. A3.
A3
She was regularly serialised in women's magazines.

Caroline Chisholm

CC 's novellaLittle Joe was serialized in the Empire in Sydney.
Moran, John, and Caroline Chisholm. “Introduction and Commentary”. Radical, in Bonnet and Shawl: Four Political Lectures, Preferential Publications, 1994, pp. 1 - 12, 30.
58

Mary Cholmondeley

MC 's first novel, The Danvers Jewels (as by Pax) appeared serially in Temple Bar. It came out in volumes this year (the same in which A Study in Scarlet introduced the most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes).
Cholmondeley, Mary. “The Danvers Jewels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
79
, Jan.–Apr. 1887, pp. 1 - 30, 161.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Agatha Christie

Miss Jane Marple had been created for serialization in an evening paper (in stories later collected in The Thirteen Problems in England, 1932, and The Tuesday Club Murders in the United States, 1933). She is derived from AC 's grandmother and from a character already created in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Caroline Sheppard; she appeared a couple of years after Patricia Wentworth 's elderly female detective, Miss Maud Silver. AC said of this novel: I cannot remember where, when or how I wrote it, why I came to write it, or even what suggested to me that I should select a new character . . . to act as sleuth in the story. . . . I did not know she was to become a rival to Hercule Poirot.
qtd. in
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research, 1989.
75
After this, however, Miss Marple did not appear again until 1942, in The Body in the Library.

Mary Collyer

Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French original appeared). It was published in weekly instalments before volume form.
Marivaux, Pierre de. “Introduction”. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****, edited by William Harlin McBurney and Michael F. Shugrue, translated by. Mary Collyer, Southern Illinois University Press, 1965, p. xi - xliv.
xlii
Once in print, it was re-issued in both licit and illicit editions. A scholarly edition was produced by William Harlin McBurney and Michael Francis Shugrue in 1965.
Marivaux enjoyed a high reputation in France before the advent of the philosophes, who mocked his style as affected. He acknowledged his debt to the Tatler and Spectator, and exerted an influence in turn on such English writers as Henry Fielding .
Gallouet, Catherine. “Deux soeurs: Moll et Marianne”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.
When Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni published her Suite de Marianne, a sequel to Marivaux, it was quickly translated into English as The Continuation of the Life of Marianne, 1766.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Catherine Cookson

CC 's historical novel Tilly Trotter came out in three successive January volumes, of which the second and third were Tilly Trotter Wed and Tilly Trotter Widowed.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
287, 339
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Louisa Stuart Costello

From late 1844 until early 1848, she published Sketches of Legendary Cities and Summer Sketches of Switzerland, two series of articles for Bentley's Miscellany.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 129-30

B. M. Croker

BMC published Infatuation, a novel which had already run as a serial in the Times Weekly from 22 July 1898, entitled Thraldom: The Emancipation of Maria Talbot. The change of title takes the emphasis off the wrongs done to the heroine, to throw it onto her mistakes.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
35572 (19 July 1898): 2; 35772 (9 March 1899): 12

Clemence Dane

CD contributed to The Scoop, a collaborative, experimental radio mystery play organized by Dorothy L. Sayers .
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
.

Mary Delany

Lady Llanover edited and published MD 's Autobiography and Correspondence, in two sets of three volumes each.
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.
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.
1732 (5 January 1861): 9-11
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.
1784 (4 January 1862): 11-5