After having earned five pounds from the Shropshire publisher...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
Other early writings by HM
included some poetry and also tracts for which she received a sovereign each from Houlston
. In 1831 Harvey and Darton
published her Five Years of Youth; or, Sense and...
Publishing
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
published The Lady of the Manor (designed to give Confirmation instruction to upper-class girls) in a series of seven volumes through Houlston
at Wellington.
MMS
published Emancipation, through Houlston
at Wellington: her topic is not slavery, but the Catholic Emancipation Act which received royal assent on 13 April this year.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Emancipation. Houlston, 1829.
title-page
Textual Production
Mary Martha Sherwood
Dudley Castle followed through Darton
the year after this, and MMS
continued to turn out at a great rate both adult novels and improving fiction for children. She published for the Religious Tract Society
...
Textual Production
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
contributed several titles to her Wellington publisher's undated collection Houlston
's Series of Tracts. The copy now at the University of Alberta
was once owned by E. M. Forster
, who pasted his bookplate into it.
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Texts
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Emancipation. Houlston, 1829.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Roxobel. Houlston, 1831, 3 vols.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Indian Pilgrim. Houlston, 1818.