Isa Blagden
's second novel in volume form, The Cost of a Secret, was published in London by Chapman & Hall
.
Blagden, Isa. The Cost of a Secret. Chapman and Hall, 1863, 3 vols.
title-page
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.
1859 (13 June 1863): 776
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
She was assisted in her research by Julia Wedgwood
. By 6 February 1857 she had completed the manuscript, which had cost her £100 for research and travel. Unlike the manuscripts of her novels, it...
Publishing
Emma Caroline Wood
During ECW
's years as an author, her annual income from her publishers (usually Messrs Chapman and Hall
or Tinsley Brothers
) amounted to over £300.
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...
Publishing
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.
106
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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.
197
Publishing
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
EMM
issued another new novel with another new publisher: The Spirit and the Law, through Chapman and Hall
.