Harry Furniss

FM was well known in London society. Her early friends included novelist Annie Thomas Cudlip (to whom she later dedicated a novel) and her later ones are typified by Harry Furniss , a budding young...

In her days of success, CR was generous to those just starting out. She helped the nineteen-year-old illustrator Harry Furniss when he first arrived in London from Ireland, giving him an introduction to Florence Marryat

CS began early to see herself as a professional. She placed her first full-page illustration in the Pall Mall Magazine at the age of sixteen, and was so delighted at its acceptance that she took...

HG published a second volume of sketches of the London financial world, Financial Philosophy, this time illustrated by Harry Furniss .

She is said to have written the first of the four Droll Stories (entitled Philosopher Push) some years before publication. The others are presumed to be recent. A Sure Shot, one of the...

CR liked to think out the details and even the dialogue for a novel before beginning to write it down. She would compose the end before the beginning. Though her publications followed each other so...