Michael Sadleir Research Articles

William Godwin’s Correspondence on Proof Corrections to St. Leon

In William Godwin’s second novel, St. Leon (1799), the eponymous hero has been granted the power to extend life through the fountain of youth and access to unlimited wealth by the transmutation of metals through the philosopher’s stone. Sworn to secrecy, St. Leon eventually alienates his family and attracts the suspicions of the communities in which he operates, despite his overpowering desire to do good, leading to a familiar Godwinian spiral of guilt, remorse, and isolation.1 After its initial publication in 1799, the second edition of 1800, and third edition of 1816, Godwin was invited to revise the novel for inclusion within the first series of Bentley’s Standard Novels. The series was initiated by the publisher Richard Bentley, who purchased cheap copyrights of out-of-print novels and reprinted them within a uniform series, which he started publishing beginning on 25 February 1831.2Bentley’s Standard Novels was a publishing venture in the vein of Anna Lætitia Barbauld’s British Novelists series or Robert Cadell’s Author’s Edition of the Waverley Novels in that it provided cheap reissues of contemporary fictional works to reach a wider audience. The Standard Novels series usually condensed novels into a single volume and issued them on a monthly basis. One of the series’ key claims, according to Michael Sadleir, was that ‘many of the texts therein included were the texts finally approved by their authors, or at least provided with prefaces in which the author’s mature judgment was passed on early work of his or her own’.3 While the new and post-Jacobin framing of Godwin’s St. Leon arguably attenuated his earlier radicalism,4 its inclusion in this series ensured its classic status and theoretically allowed Godwin to produce an authoritative version of the text.

SENTIMENT AND MATERIALITY IN LATE VICTORIAN BOOK COLLECTING

In the first half of the twentieth century, analytic bibliographers in Britain turned their attention to the systematic study of the nineteenth-century book. Developing their subject, they felt compelled to distance themselves from the Victorian book collector, who touched off a “suspicion . . . deeply ingrained in the mind of scholars and librarians” (Sadleir, “Development” 147). A new generation of bibliographers – Michael Sadleir, John Carter, and Graham Pollard – acknowledged that Victorian collecting had laid the foundations for the bibliographic study of books by “modern” (i.e., nineteenth-century) writers, as opposed to incunabula, the traditional focus of British book collecting. The contribution was regarded as fundamentally flawed, however, owing to a “sentimental element” in Victorian collecting (Carter and Pollard 101).

Anthony Trollope: A Bibliography of His First American Editions, 1858-1884, with Photographic Reproductions of Bindings and Titlepages; A Supplement to Michael Sadleir's "Trollope: A Bibliography.". Walter E. Smith

<i>Anthony Trollope: A Bibliography of His First American Editions, 1858-1884, with Photographic Reproductions of Bindings and Titlepages; A Supplement to Michael Sadleir's "Trollope: A Bibliography."</i>. Walter E. Smith

Michael Sadleir and His Collection of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Michael Sadleir and His Collection of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Trollope and the Evangelicals

OF TROLLOPE'S FULL-SCALE BIOGRAPHERS the only one to have known him was Thomas Sweet Escott, and he mentions that the future novelist received his first lessons in religion from J. W. Cunningham, the Vicar of Harrow whom Frances Trollope has scabrously immortalized as the Vicar of Wrexhill in the novel of that name. Mrs. Trollope did not like Evangelicals, or at any rate she did not like Cunningham. The reasons given vary. Michael Sadleir, for example, attributes it in part to encouragements from the Drurys of Harrow School, in part from Cunningham's own canting behavior. ' Trollope himself may have inherited some of his own dislike from his mother, although Escott comments:

Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding by R. C. Terry

not being quite bright enough to know exactly what he was trying to say to me.” She adds: “ Maybe he was being rude to me, but I didn’t feel sure enough of that to be angry, and why be angry?” This sweet reasonableness and quiet determination enabled Coburn to triumph at each stage of her pilgrimage — from the parsonage where she had been one of six children, to Victoria College among the all-male learned, and thence to Oxford and out to the wide world of British integrity, noblesse oblige and scholarly rivalry. Kathleen Coburn gives us glimpses of her other, her private pursuits: her quiet life on her island in Georgian Bay, her friendships with the local Indians, her ability to balance periods of intense work in England with repose in her quiet Canadian retreat. England has become for her a second country. And we also glimpse some of the scholars and writers she encountered — delicate pen portraits, admirable in their summing-up. These include Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Douglas Grant, John Hayward, Margaret Murray, Humphry House, Herbert Read, I. A. Richards, and others. For those of us who have been pursuers, but have not kept Coburn’s meticulous records, who look back into a series of half-forgotten adventures that merge and blur, it is a delight to recover in Cobum’s narrative the deepest meaning of human­ istic research, the kind of personal riches one silently earns. They are pro­ foundly difficult to describe; they belong to the heart of one’s commitment, to a sense of the past, and the deepest springs of literary re-creation. l e o n e d e l / The University of Hawaii R. C. Terry, Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding (London: The Mac­ millan Press, 1977). xi, 286. $25.05 In Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding, R. C. Terry has produced a fine guide to Trollope. It is a treasury of good quotations well culled from the many novels, and presented through a sensible and informed commentary. It includes an entertaining collection of contemporary comments on Trollope the man, as well as a summary of the life, and a thoroughly researched and convincing assessment of Trollope’s literary reputation. And it testifies throughout to patient research and a thorough familiarity with the enor­ mous oeuvre. The book will not revolutionize the way we read Trollope’s novels, and I think is not intended to overturn accepted judgments or offer us a new read­ ing. It is offered as a balanced assessment of the whole achievement, and is moderate and conservative in its approach. Terry’s claims for Trollope’s artistry are almost as modest as Trollope’s own, though he can see through the façade of the cobbler-novelist Trollope called himself to the artist within, 254 the “artist in hiding.” But he makes no such confident assertion of Trollope’s major status as another recent writer, James Kincaid, who in an article for Nineteenth-Century Fiction called “Bring back The Trollopian,” boldly sug­ gested that Dickens, Joyce and James are easy cases for criticism, but more sophisticated tools are required to deal with “high art-— George Eliot, Tol­ stoy, Trollope.” Terry, by contrast, is quick to acknowledge Trollope’s “ lesser rank” in comparison with George Eliot (38), and “the weaknesses of his per­ ception which in the end limit his achievement” (88). In fact, Terry undersells his subject, and to some extent at the expense of his own argument. One matter in which he undertakes to reverse accepted views is in his refutation of Michael Sadleir’s assessment of Trollope’s reputa­ tion in his Trollope: A Commentary of 1927, still a major and usually reliable source of information. Sadleir, Terry convincingly demonstrates, overesti­ mated the extent to which Trollope was in eclipse in the late years, and drastically exaggerated the unpopularity of the novels in the early decades of this century. He wrote in the role of one championing an unpopular cause, when a Trollope revival was well under way. We are in the midst of another Trollope revival today, but Terry still has the “ unnecessarily apologetic tone” which he identifies in...

In Search of Sadleir

Research Article| March 01 1973 In Search of Sadleir Bradford A. Booth Bradford A. Booth Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1973) 27 (4): 385–390. https://doi.org/10.2307/2933515 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bradford A. Booth; In Search of Sadleir. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1 March 1973; 27 (4): 385–390. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2933515 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1973 By The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

"A Kind of Felicity": Some Notes About Trollope's Style

U N NTIL A FEW years ago most students of Anthony Trollope either ignored his style altogether or dismissed it, as one typical commentator does, as flat and dull. I Trollope himself says nothing to encourage the idea that his writing would reward close scrutiny: his principal concern as a stylist, he makes plain in An Autobiography, simply to make his words pleasant, 'intelligible without trouble, and pellucid that the meaning should be rendered without an effort to the reader. 2 It to the matter of his books-their characters and stories, and their freight of moral implication-that he wants his audience to pay attention, not to the manner in which they are written, and he tries, like an anonymous craftsman in wood or stone, so to wield his tools as to leave no mark of them on the finished product. He always a little contemptuous of the self-conscious literary artist, the man who thinks much of his words as he writes (Autobiography, pp. 152153): skill of tongue and glibness of speech, he observes in The Duke's Children, is hardly an affair of intellect at all. It is,as style to the writer,-not the wares which he has to take to market, but the vehicle in which they may be carried (I, 244). Despite Trollope's avowed lack of interest in style, and despite the tradition that his work is, as Michael Sadleir puts it, wholly undistinguished in treatment, 3 the tendency of critics lately has been to give at least some passing attention to his language and

Michael Sadleir: A Handlist

Journal Article Michael Sadleir: A Handlist Get access SIMON NOWELL-SMITH SIMON NOWELL-SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s5-XIII, Issue 2, June 1958, Pages 132–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s5-XIII.2.132 Published: 01 June 1958

Reviews

Reviews A. N. L. MUNBY, The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872. With an account of the Phillipps Art Collections, by A. E. Popham. (Phillipps Studies No. 4.) Cambridge University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi+227, 11 plates. 8¼ × 5¼ in. 25s. MICHAEL SADLEIR MICHAEL SADLEIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s5-XI, Issue 4, April 1956, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s5-XI.4.289 Published: 01 April 1956

XIX Century Fiction: a Bibliographical Record Based on His Own Collection. Michael Sadleir

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsXIX Century Fiction: a Bibliographical Record Based on His Own Collection. Michael Sadleir Gordon N. RayGordon N. Ray Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 47, Number 1First Quarter, 1953 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.47.1.24299808 Views: 1Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Mrs. Trollope's "Domestic Manners"

Book Review| March 01 1950 Mrs. Trollope's "Domestic Manners" The Domestic Manners of the Americans.Frances TrollopeDonald SmalleyChange for the American NotesHenry Wood Ada B. Nisbet Ada B. Nisbet Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1950) 4 (4): 319–324. https://doi.org/10.2307/3044411 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ada B. Nisbet; Mrs. Trollope's "Domestic Manners". Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1 March 1950; 4 (4): 319–324. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3044411 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Trollope and the "Pall Mall Gazette". Part One

OIIIiII1N February 7, I865, George Smith, as proprietor, and Frederick Greenwood, as editor, published the first number of The Pall Mall Gazette, a London evening newspaper that took its title from Thackeray's imaginary journal and recruited its staff from the Cornhill writers.' One of the contributors to the first number was Anthony Trollope. Since the appearance of Framley Parsonage in i86o, Trollope had been closely associated with George Smith, the two men having turned what was at first a mere business relationship into a very pleasant social relationship. Trollope had long felt a sense of obligation to Smith for having given him his first significant literary opportunity. For this reason and for the even more compelling reason of personal friendship he therefore lent his talents, without thought of adequate remuneration, toward the successful establishment of the new venture. For three or four years he considered himself a member of the Pall Mall staff, though he was very much the free-lance reporter on roving assignment and his contributions were sporadic. When Michael Sadleir was compiling his Trollope: A Bibliography, he had access to a series of letters to George Smith in which Trollope discussed his Pall Mall

Trollope on Froude's "Caesar"

NTHONY TROLLOPE'S LIFE was so full of a number of things that even his most recent critics deny on the score of time that he could have been widely read.' The catalogue of his rich library, though it indicates the number of books on his shelves, does not, of course, guarantee that he had read them all. But the volumes with extensive marginalia which occasionally appear on the market or turn up in libraries offer some perspective for generalization. The first number of The Trollopian carried a notice of Trollope's annotated drama collection, and Michael Sadleir's article transcribing the Bacon jottings is another bit of evidence certifying Trollope's habits of critical commentary. Another such volume that has recently come to my attention is his copy of James Anthony Froude's Caesar.2 What he has to say about this book has special interest in view of his own volumes on Caesar and Cicero, both of which had been completed (though the Cicero was not yet published) when Froude's work appeared in I 879. The pungency of Trollope's remarks on Froude as a historian is understandable on at least two counts. First, Trollope was widely read in Roman history and literature, and he had strong objections to Froude's reading of character. In his autobiography he tells us that after I 869 he spent at least an hour daily with his favorite Latin authors. This regimen was undertaken nominally for recreation, but perhaps another and deeper motivation was also operative. There can be no doubt, I think, that on the score of his education Trollope suffered from an inferiority

‘MINERVA PRESS’ PUBLICITY A PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT OF 1794

‘MINERVA PRESS’ PUBLICITY A PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT OF 1794 Get access MICHAEL SADLEIR MICHAEL SADLEIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-XXI, Issue 2, September 1940, Pages 207–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XXI.2.207 Published: 01 September 1940

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access Maria Edgeworth: 1767–1849. A Bibliographical Tribute. By BERTHA COOLIDGE SLADE. Constable. 42s. net. Edition limited to 250 copies. MICHAEL SADLEIR MICHAEL SADLEIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-XIX, Issue 2, September 1938, Pages 252–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XIX.2.252 Published: 01 September 1938

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access The Publishing Firm of Cadell & Davies. Select Correspondence and Accounts. 1793–1836. Edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore Besterman. O.U.P., 1938. ( Oxford Books on Bibliography). Pp. xxxv+189. 38s. net. MICHAEL SADLEIR MICHAEL SADLEIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-XIX, Issue 3, December 1938, Pages 364–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XIX.3.364 Published: 01 December 1938

The Lee priory press

The Lee priory press Get access Michael Sadleir Michael Sadleir Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume CLX, Issue apr11, 11 April 1931, Page 260, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/CLX.apr11.260d Published: 11 April 1931

REVIEWS AND NOTICES

Journal Article REVIEWS AND NOTICES Get access Points, 1874–1930: being extracts from a bibliographer's note-book. by OERCY H. MUIR. With four plates in collotype,six facsimiles in line [&c.]. London, Consdable & Co., 1931. [In Michael Sadleir's series, bliographia, No. 5.]. Pp xvii , 168. Price 21s. Modern First Editions: Points and Values. Points, By GILBERT H. FABES. and WILLIAM A FOYLE, W. & G. Ltd., London. Pp 93. Price 15s. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. By GEOFFEREY KEYNES. London: printed for the Nonesuch press, 1931. Pp xix, 136. Price 16s. Eden pbillpotts : a bibllliography of the first editions. By PERCIVIAL HINTON. Birmingham: Greville Worthington, 1931. 350 Copies printed. Prices 30s. A.W.P. A.W.P. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-XII, Issue 3, December 1931, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XII.3.362 Published: 01 December 1931

REVIEWS AND NOTICES

REVIEWS AND NOTICES Get access Trottope : a bibliography. An analysis of the history and the structure of the works of Anthony Trollope, and a general survey of the effect of original publishing conditions on a book's subsequent rarity. By MICHAEL SADLEIR. London, Constable & Co., Ltd., 1928, pp. xvi. 320. Two guineas, net. 500 copies printed. AWP AWP Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-IX, Issue 4, March 1928, Pages 418–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-IX.4.418 Published: 01 March 1928