Notable Women Authors of the Day

by Helen C. Black

edited by Andrew Maunder and Troy Bassett

Notable Women Authors of the DayNotable Women Authors of the Day includes 30 author interviews originally published in the magazine Lady’s Pictorial.

Helen C. Black describes the author and her home, sharing with the reader details of domestic arrangements and writing habits.  The profiles create a strong sense of these women as both feminine and professional writers.  Told in the second person, the interviews create an immediacy and intimacy between the authors and the reader.

This Victorian Secrets edition will include a preface from Andrew Maunder (University of Hertfordshire) and an introduction to Helen C. Black from Troy Bassett (Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne).  There will also be additional information on each of the authors and an accompanying website with further material.

The text is based on the 1906 edition, including the following writers:

  • Mrs Lynn Linton
  • Mrs Riddell
  • Mrs L B Walford
  • Rhoda Broughton
  • John Strange Winter (Mrs Arthur Stannard)
  • Mrs Alexander
  • Helen Mathers
  • Florence Marryat
  • Mrs Lovett Cameron
  • Mrs Hungerford
  • Matilda Betham Edwards
  • Edna Lyall
  • Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • Adeline Sergeant
  • Mrs Edward Kennard
  • Jessie Fothergill
  • Lady Duffus Hardy
  • Iza Duffus Hardy
  • May Crommelin
  • Mrs Houstoun
  • Mrs Alex Fraser
  • Honourable Mrs Henry Chetwynd
  • Jean Middlemass
  • Augusta de Grasse Stevens
  • Mrs Leith Adams
  • Jean Ingelow
  • Annie S. Swan
  • Sarah Grand
  • Marie Corelli
  • Rita (Mrs Desmond Humphreys)

Forthcoming in Autumn 2010.

Please enter your email address below to be notified when this title is available:

(You can rest assured that we won’t use your email address for nefarious purposes.)