She attempted unsuccessfully to get better terms from her publisher,...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
gave the manuscript of Mary Barton to William Howitt
for his advice—he later claimed to have suggested the novel—and he in turn showed it to John Forster
, a reader for Chapman and Hall
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
She had originally called this story Rosemary. Her publisher Edward Chapman
suggested The Fagot, to which EG
replied I will disown that book if you call it The Fagot;—the name of my book...
Reception
Dinah Mulock Craik
After John Halifax, Gentleman, Dinah Mulock was able to demand £2,000 for a novel.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
157
On the strength of her newfound popularity, Edward Chapman
issued new editions of her previous novels, of which he...
Wealth and Poverty
Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite her steady publication, Dinah Mulock was still short of money. Unable to procure better terms from Edward Chapman
even after The Head of the Family (1851) sold well, she unsuccessfully applied for a job...
Timeline
Early 1830: Edward Chapman and William Hall established...
Writing climate item
Early 1830
Edward Chapman
and William Hall
established a bookselling business at 186 Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 95
9 July 1902: The first motorboat to cross the Atlantic...
National or international item
9 July 1902
The first motorboat to cross the Atlantic arrived at Falmouth in Cornwall.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.