Dugan (English, Oxford Brookes U.) traces the emergence of Emmuska Orczy's (1865-1947) play (1903) and novel (1905) The Scarlet Pimpernel from two of her short stories featuring plots against the Russ
Recchio (English, University of Connecticut) examines the "afterlife" of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. This story was first published in Dickens's journal Household Words in segments from 1851-1853.
Offering an invaluable resource for researchers, book historians, and collectors, Parisian (English and theater, U. of North Carolina) thoroughly traces the "life" of the 1782 novel titled Cecilia, Or
Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 December 1860 and 3 August 1861. In this new publishing an
Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dick
Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and E
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and econo
As the lead poem in Christina Rossetti's first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, "Goblin Market" stands both historically and literally as the gateway to Rossetti's works. Despite its importa
