After her rejection by Pawling
, P. R.
said she should try another publisher. Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
liked her manuscript but judged it too outspoken because it mentioned corsets. He suggested another...
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Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM
switched publishers after this book. She asked the advice of Lewes
, and he recommended her to Frederic Chapman
of Chapman and Hall
. But the next book she published, Elinor Dryden's Probation...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The English Chapman and Hall
edition cost 12s, the United States edition from C. S. Francis
, for which he paid the author $100, was $1.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
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Evelyn Waugh
EW
published Decline and Fall, his first novel. Several sexually risqué passages were toned down at the request of his publishers, Chapman
, but he restored them in a second edition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
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Olive Schreiner
Her publisher, Frederic Chapman
(of Chapman and Hall
), was concerned about the character Lyndall, who bears a child out of wedlock. He asked Schreiner to rewrite parts of the novel, including the secret marriage...
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Mary Butts
MB
' first book, a volume entitled Speed the Plough and Other Stories, was advertised by her publisher, Chapman and Hall
, with a kind of health warning to conventional buyers.
Speed the Plough...
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Olive Schreiner
Schreiner began writing the book in South Africa in 1873, and continued to work on it while living in England. She returned to it often, but it never reached a stage where she considered...
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Ouida
Ouida
published (with Chapman and Hall
) Two Little Wooden Shoes: A Sketch; it appeared the same year in the United States and Germany.
She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder
; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall
...
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Edith Mary Moore
She dedicated this book to her son Edward Lovell Moore
, then on active service. Chapman and Hall
advertised the novel repeatedly in the Times Literary Supplement
(13 January 1916): 17; (3 February 1916): 53; (2 March 1916): 100; (6 April 1916): 163
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Annie Tinsley
The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder
, though for a limited period of seven years. She...
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Ouida
The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley
to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall
; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury
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Charles Dickens
The project was originally initatied and envisioned by publishers Chapman and Hall
as text to accompany a showcase of engravings by Robert Seymour
, a popular illustrator. On Seymour's suicide shortly after publication began, Dickens...
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Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.