“Selina Bunbury”. The Irish Book Lover, Vol.
vii
, No. 6, Jan. 1916, pp. 105-7. 106
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her next school was the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen (a school that counted its pupils in single figures and was run by a trio of very young sisters). Frances was good at... |
| Education | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
and her elder brother were both educated at home under their mother's excellent tutelage until Katharine was ten and her brother was twelve. Their rigorous programme of education required the nine-year-old Katharine to read... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Smythies | After she began her career as a novelist, HS
moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth
and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton
. Literary historian Montague Summers... |
| Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |
| Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Wood | According to EW
's son and biographer Charles Wood
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, as proprietor of Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine, had early in her career dissuaded her from writing a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Bunbury | SB
wrote most of this book during her residence in Warwickshire, and completed it in Ireland in the year she attended her dying mother. |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played Winifred Wood in an adaptation of Harrison Ainsworth
's Jack Sheppard opposite Mary Anne Keeley
in her famous breeches role as Jack. |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | EW
received £60 for the serial rights to The Shadow of Ashlydyat: it was first published in the New Monthly Magazine, at that point still edited by Ainsworth
, between October 1861 and November 1863. Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 262 Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry). |
| Publishing | Ouida | Ouida met the editor of Bentley's, William Harrison Ainsworth
, in late 1858 or early 1859. Dr Francis W. Ainsworth
, a neighbour of hers in Hammersmith, was his cousin. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Timeline
17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...
National or international item
17 August 1612
The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.
Paxman, David. “Lancashire Spiritual Culture and the Question of Magic”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, 2001, pp. 223-43. 228
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
28
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
12 March to 25 May 1644: In her husband's absence the royalist Countess...
National or international item
12 March to 25 May 1644
In her husband
's absence the royalist Countess of Derby
, born a Huguenot Frenchwoman, successfully stood a siege at Lathom House in Lancashire (a towered and moated building).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
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3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...
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3 May 1834
William Harrison Ainsworth
published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
11-12
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Delightful to be Robbed”. London Review of Books, 9 May 2002, pp. 32-3.
33-4
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...
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4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
February 1842: The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine:...
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February 1842
The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art appeared, catering to popular Victorian taste in entertainment and literature.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 5, 7, 9, 13
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
15
By 6 January 1849: William Harrison Ainsworth's historical novel...
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By 6 January 1849
William Harrison Ainsworth
's historical novel The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest (about a real witch-hunt of 1612) appeared in volume form.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1106 (6 January 1849): 3
Locke, Harold. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels and Ballads of William Harrison Ainsworth. E. Mathews, 1925.
31-3
December 1868: With sales of the once-popular Bentley's...
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December 1868
With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley
, ended its publication.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 12-13, 113
Texts
Hutton, Catherine. “A Sketch of A Family of Originals”. Ainsworth’s Magazine, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, Vol.
5
, pp. 56-63. Ainsworth, William Harrison. Rookwood. R. Bentley, 1834, 3 vols.