R. M. Ballantyne

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Standard Name: Ballantyne, R. M.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Enid Blyton
Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM published another novel, Orphan Island, a tongue-in-cheek contribution to the exotic-adventure genre of The Coral IslandR. M. Ballantyne and Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson .
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
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Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968.
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Timeline

Later 1857: R. M. Ballantyne published his hugely popular...

Writing climate item

Later 1857

R. M. Ballantyne published his hugely popular boys' story The Coral Island; the title-page bore the following year's date.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Wife Overboard”. London Review of Books, LRB, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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Texts

Ballantyne, R. M. The Coral Island. T. Nelson and Sons, 1858.