Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI:
Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne by their Contemporaries
Series Editor: Ralph Pite
Volume Editors: Tom Hubbard, Rikky Rooksby and Edward Wakeling
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures
978 1 85196 905 0: 234x156mm: £275.00/$495.00
The sixth set in Pickering & Chatto’s innovative and successful Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to three celebrated Victorian authors.
In their own time, Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson), Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Carroll and Stevenson invented some of the most iconic and enduring characters in Victorian children’s literature, from the White Rabbit to Long John Silver. Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866) established his reputation as Tennyson’s poetic heir. Stevenson and Swinburne were famed for their flamboyant bohemian lifestyles which were seen to feed into their work – although Oscar Wilde acerbically suggested that Swinburne wrote about vice more than he practised it. By contrast, mathematician Charles Dodgson’s position as an Oxford don was at odds with the surreal, dream-like worlds he created in the Alice books.
Diary extracts, letters, memoirs and other ephemeral material allows scholars to see these figures through the eyes of their contemporaries. These early accounts shed a different light on their personalities and reputations than more recent portrayals.
This edition will appeal to scholars and students of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Life Writing, Children’s Writing and Queer Theory.
- Careful text selection shows how three celebrated Victorian writers were viewed by their contemporaries
- Full editorial apparatus includes a substantial general introduction, volume introductions, bibliographies, chronologies, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume
- Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
Sample pages
- Volume 1: The Real Alice
- Volume 2: Neil Munro on Robert Louis Stevenson
- Volume 3: Royal Descent of A C Swinburne
Contents
Volume 1: Lewis Carroll
Edited by Edward Wakeling
Edmund Yates, His Recollections and Experiences (1885); Ethel M Arnold, ‘Social Life in Oxford’, Harper’s Monthly Magazine (1890); Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) (excerpts); Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, ‘Before Alice’, – The Boyhood of Lewis Carroll’, Strand Magazine (1898); Thomas Banks Strong, ‘Lewis Carroll’, Cornhill Magazine (1898); Henry Lewis Thompson, ‘The Late Rev C L Dodgson’, Oxford Magazine (1898); E Gertrude Thomson, ‘Lewis Carroll A Sketch by an Artist-Friend’, The Gentlewoman (1898); Francis Paget, ‘The Spirit of Reverence’ sermon preached at Carroll’s memorial service in Christ Church Cathedral (1898); Beatrice Hatch, ‘Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)’, Strand Magazine (1898); Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899); Edith Alice Maitland (née Litton), ‘Childish Memories of Lewis Carroll’, The Quiver (1899); Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, ‘Some of Lewis Carroll’s Child-Friends’, Century Magazine (1899); S D Collingwood, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) (excerpt); Cosmo Monkhouse, The Life and Works of Sir John Tenniel (1901); Letter from C L Dodgson to William Wilcox, ‘A Visit to Tennyson’, Strand Magazine (1901); Florence Milner, ‘The Poems in Alice in Wonderland’, The Bookman (1903); Lionel A Tollemache, ‘Recollections of Famous Men’, Old and Odd Memories (1908); Philip Loring Allen, ‘The Sketch-Books of Wonderland’, The Bookman (1908); Ellen Terry, The Story of My Life (1908); Arthur Hassall, ‘Common Room’, Christ Church Oxford (1911); Lord Redesdale, ‘Wales and Oxford’, Memories (1915); Alvin Langdon Coburn, ‘Old Masters of Photography’, Century Magazine (1915); Hereward Carrington, ‘The Psychology of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass’, The Occult Review (1915); Ethel M Arnold, ‘Reminiscences of Lewis Carroll’, Windsor Magazine (1929); Dorothy Furniss, ‘New Lewis Carroll Letters’, Pearson’s Magazine (1930); ‘Lewis Carroll and Guildford’, Guildford City Outlook (1931); ‘Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days, as told to her son Caryl Hargreaves’, Cornhill Magazine (1932); G K Chesterton, ‘The 100th Birthday of Nonsense’, The New York Times Magazine (1932); Clair Price, ‘Alice Lives: In Wonderland – And In Fact’, The New York Times Magazine (1932); A A Milne, ‘The Golden Afternoon When Alice Arrived’, The Evening Standard (1932); Harry Morgan Ayres, ‘Lewis Carroll and the ‘Alice’, Books’, Columbia University Quarterly (1932); Isabel Standen, ‘Lewis Carroll as I Remember Him’, The Queen (1932); R B Braithwaite, ‘Lewis Carroll as Logician’, Mathematical Gazette (1932); Rev P Gordon Duff, ‘Address by the Rev C L Dodgson at St Mary Magdalen Church, St Leonards-on-Sea’, (1932); Langford Reed, ‘Lewis Carroll and His Religion’, The Life of Lewis Carroll (1932); ELS [Edith L Shute], ‘Lewis Carroll as Artist: And Other Oxford Memories’, Cornhill Magazine (1932); ‘Lewis Carroll Centenary: Guildford Associations’, Surrey and County Times (1932); Donald B Eperson, ‘Lewis Carroll – Mathematician’, Mathematical Gazette (1933); Shane Leslie, ‘Lewis Carroll and the Oxford Movement’, The London Mercury (1933); A M E Goldschmidt, ‘Alice in Wonderland Psychoanalyzed’, The New Oxford Outlook (1933); Gertrude Chataway [Mrs A G Atkinson], ‘Memories of Lewis Carroll’, Hampshire Chronicle (1948); Irene Vanbrugh, To Tell My Story (excerpt) (1948); Warren Weaver, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Its Origin and Its Author’, Princeton University Library Chronicle (1951); Audrey Fuller [Mrs. E H B Skimming], Mary Barber [Mrs. H T Stretton], Enid Stevens; [Mrs E G Shawyer] , ‘More Recollections of Lewis Carroll’, The Listener (1958); Ethel Hatch, ‘Recollections of Lewis Carroll’, The Listener (1958); Obituaries in The Times, The Oxford Chronicle and Punch
Volume 2: Robert Louis Stevenson
Edited by Tom Hubbard
Anon., ‘Review of Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes’, The Scotsman (1879); William Archer, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson at ‘Skerryvore’, Critic (1887); Margaret Oliphant, ‘Review of Underwoods’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1887); Sophia Kirk, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, The Atlantic Monthly (1887); Henry James, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, The Century (1888); J M Barrie, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, British Weekly (1888); Interview with Robert Louis Stevenson, Sydney Morning Herald (1890); Robert Louis Stevenson on Realism and Idealism, Littell’s Living Age (1891); Lionel Johnson, ‘Review of Island Nights Entertainments’, The Academy (1893); William Archer, ‘In Memoriam Robert Louis Stevenson’, The New Review (1895); Marcel Schwob, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, The New Review (1895); C T Copeland, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, The Atlantic Monthly (1895); Edmund Gosse, ‘Personal Memories of Robert Louis Stevenson’, The Century (1895); M G Van Rensselaer, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, and his Writing’, The Century (1895); Gelett Burgess, ‘An Interview with Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson’, Bookman (1898); M C Balfour and J C Balfour, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, by two of his cousins’, English Illustrated Magazine (1899); Isobel Osbourne Strong, ‘Stevenson in Samoa’, The Century (1899); Montgomery Schuyler, ‘The Canonization of Stevenson’, The Century (1899); Henry James, ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, The North American Review (1900); William Wallace, ‘The Life and Limitations of Stevenson’, The Scottish Review (1900); J Cuthbert Hadden, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Music’, Glasgow Herald (1900); Anon., ‘The Book of the Month: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Life’, The Review of Reviews (1901); Howard Wilford Bell, ‘An Unpublished Chapter in the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson’, Pall Mall Magazine (1901); W E Henley, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, Pall Mall Gazette (1901); Ferruccio Busoni, letter to his wife on Robert Louis Stevenson and Jekyll and Hyde (1904); William Sharp, ‘The Country of Stevenson’, Literary Geography (1904); Lord Rosebery, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, transcript of speech given at Edinburgh in 1896, in Wallace, Burns, Stevenson: Appreciations (1905); Arthur Johnstone, Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (1905) (excerpts); Neil Munro, ‘Stevenson: the Man and his Work’, The Bookman (1913); Edgar C Knowlton, ‘A Russian Influence on Stevenson’, Modern Philology (1916); Anon., ‘Stevenson Unwhitewashed: Was his Story of Jekyll and Hyde Enacted in Real Life?’, Current Opinion (1924); G A Hayes-McCoy, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and the Irish Question’, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review (1950)
Volume 3: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Edited by Rikky Rooksby
W Winwood Reade, ‘Mr Swinburne: A Sketch’, Galaxy (1867); Lucy Fountain, ‘An Evening With Swinburne’, Galaxy (1871); E C Stedman, New York Daily Tribune (1875); Louise Chandler Moulton, ‘An Evening With Swinburne’, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine (1878); E C Stedman, ‘Some London Poets’, Harper’s Monthly Magazine (1882); Lord Ronald Gower, My Reminiscences (1883) (excerpts); William Minto (ed.), William Bell Scott Autobiographical Notes (1892); William Sharp, ‘A Literary Friendship’, Pall Mall Magazine (1901); Theodore Wratislaw, A C Swinburne: A Study (1901); Lionel Cresswell, ‘Royal Descent of A C Swinburne’, Genealogical Magazine (1902); Sir Edmund Gosse, ‘Mr Swinburne’, Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1902); Laura H Friswell, ‘A Well-Known Poet’, In the Sixties and Seventies (1906); W M Rossetti, Some Reminiscences (1906); Eleanor Sewell (ed.), The Journal of Elizabeth Sewell (1907) ; Alice and Rhys Ernest Bird, ‘Two Evenings with Swinburne’, The Bibliophile (1909); Mary Disney Leith, ‘Swinburne’, Contemporary Review (1910); Ramsay W Colles, In Castle And Court House (1911); L C Collins (ed.), Life and Letters of John Churton Collins (1912); Sir Edmund Gosse, ‘Swinburne et Etretat’, Cornhill Magazine (1912); L M Lamont, Thomas Armstrong, A Memoir (1912); Francis Wedmore, Memories (1912); Edward Bulwer Lytton, Life of Edward Bulwer Lytton (1913); W Robertson Nicoll, A Bookman’ s Letters (1913); T Watts-Dunton (ed.), Selections from Swinburne (1914); Henry Scott Holland, A Bundle of Memories (1915); A B Mitford [Lord Redesdale], Memories (1915); E V Lucas, ‘At The Pines’, New Statesman (1916); Coulson Kernahan, In Good Company (1917); Arthur Symons, ‘A C Swinburne’, Fortnightly Review (1917); Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918); Thomas Hake and Arthur Compton-Rickett (eds), The Letters of A C Swinburne (1918); W H Mallock, Memoirs of Life and Literature (1920); Sir Edmund Gosse, ‘The First Draft of Swinburne’s ‘Anactoria’, Aspects and Impressions (1922); S M Ellis (ed.), A Mid-Victorian Pepys: Letters of Sir William Hardman (1923); Harry Furniss, Some Victorian Men (1924); Johnston Forbes-Robertson, A Player Under Three Reigns (1925); Sir Edmund Gosse, ‘Swinburne’ (1925); Richard Le Gallienne, The Romantic 90s (1925) S M Ellis, The Hardman Papers (1930); A P Graves, To Return To All That (1930); Ford M Ford, Portraits From Life (1937); Lionel James, A Forgotten Genius: Sewell of Radley (1945); Daphne Du Maurier, The Young George Du Maurier (1951); Alfred Noyes, ‘Dinner at The Pines’, and ‘Two Worlds For Memory’, The Listener (1957); Ford M Ford, ‘A Pre-Raphaelite Youth’, Memories and Impressions (1979); David Newsome (ed.), Edwardian Excursions from the Diary of A C Benson (1981); Rosalie Mander (ed.), Recollections of D G Rossetti and his Circle by Henry Treffry Dunn (1984)
Reviews
' ...extensive, informative preliminary introductions and detailed headnotes ... the volumes are sturdily and attractively bound; the facsimiles are reproduced well.'
– The Year's Work in English Studies