T. Fisher Unwin's pseudonym library: Literary marketing and authorial identity

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-160

  Bassett, Troy J ^a  

^a Haskell Indian University

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EID: 67649588909     PISSN: 00138339     EISSN: 15592715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2487/P7UV-P56R-4527-2H10     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. N. N. Feltes in Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993) characterizes the time as a change from a petty-commodity literary mode of production to a fully capitalist literary mode of production
2. Details about the history of T. Fisher Unwin come from Patricia Anderson and Jonathan Rose, eds., British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Dictionary of Literary Biography 106 (Detroit: Gale, 1991), 304-11
3. Philip Unwin, The Publishing Unwins (London: Heinemann, 1972), 44
4. George Jefferson, Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 42
5. John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), 513
6. Carolyn G. Heilbrum, The Garnett Family (New York: Macmillan, 1961), 71
7. For a complete list of the Pseudonym Library, see The English Catalogue of Books, 1890-1897 (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1898), 1163
8. or, Robert Lee Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction (New York: Garland, 1981), 293-94. Neither list is definitive
9. Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900, 2nd ed. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998), 298-99. Series were not limited to fictional works. In fact, most series publications in the nineteenth century were nonfiction works
10. Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?" Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon, trans. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), 24
11. Garnett in a letter to W. H. Hudson, quoted in Jefferson, 49
12. Brian Reade, Aubrey Beardsley (New York: Viking, 1967), 296
13. Advertisement for T. Fisher Unwin, Academy, 1017 (31 October 1891), 392
14. "Novels," Saturday Review, 70 (8 November 1890), 534
15. "Novels of the Week," Athenaeum, 3289 (8 November 1890), 622
16. Review of The Story of Eleanor Lambert by Magdalen Brooke, Academy, 981 (21 Feb 1891), 183
17. "Contemporary Literature: Belles Lettres," Westminster Review, 137 (1892), 224-25
18. Review of John Sherman, and Dhoya by Gonconagh, Academy, 1027 (9 Jan 1892), 35
19. Gerard Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 48-51
20. "Assumed Names in Literature," Chambers's Journal, 55 (1878), 523-24
21. and "Disguised Authors," Chambers's Journal, 66 (1889), 763-64
22. Saturday Review, 14 October 1882, 510-11
23. Quoted in Genette, 49
24. I do not have the space to fully summarize the history and practice of authorial anonymity or pseudonymity. I refer the interested reader to the relevant chapter in Genette and the article by Robert J. Griffin "Anonymity and Authorship," New Literary History, 30 (1999), 877-95
25. Genette, 50
26. Lanoe Falconer, Mademoiselle Ixe (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890), 59
27. L. F. A., "A Causerie," Illustrated London News, 99 (21 Nov 1891), 667
28. "Novels of the Week," Athenaeum, 3320 (13 June 1891), 762
29. Review of Gentleman Upcott's Daughter by Tom Cobbleigh, Bookman, December 1892, 90
30. "Novels of the Week," Athenaeum, 3359 (12 March 1892), 339
31. Letter from Yeats to John O'Leary in The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume One: 1865-1895, John Kelly and Eric Domville, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 269
32. Evelyn March Phillipps, "Lanoe Falconer," Cornhill Magazine, 32 (February 1912), 233
33. Quoted in John Morgan Richards, ed., The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, told in her correspondence with numerous friends (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1911), 62
34. A. de Grasse Stevens, "John Oliver Hobbes," Novel Review, 1 (August 1892), 399
35. "The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre," PMLA, 110 (1995), 215
36. A. de Grasse Stevens, "John Oliver Hobbes," 400