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Late Nineteenth-Century Prose
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Harris, W. V. George Saintsbury and Edmund Gosse. In Victorian
prose: a guide to research, ed D. J. DeLaura, New York 1973.
Lindenberger, H. S. In his Profession, 1984.
Orel, H. In his Victorian literary critics, 1984.
Oram, R. W. George Saintsbury. DLB 57 1987.
Jones, D. R.‘King of critics’: George Saintsbury, 1845–1933, critic,
journalist, historian, professor. Ann Arbor MI 1992.
Maertz, G. Papers on Language and Literature vol 30 no 2, Spring
1994.
Hewison, P. E. George Saintsbury. DLB 149 1995. [fjmk]
Edith Simcox, Edith Jemima Simcox 1844–1901
Ms Autobiography of a shirt maker, Bodleian.
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Natural law: an essay in ethics. 1877, Boston 1877, London 1878 (2nd
edn), Boston 1879 (2nd edn).
Episodes in the lives of men, women, and lovers. 1882, Boston 1882,
New York [1885] as Men, women and lovers.
reviews: Acad Apr 1882; Pall Mall Gazette May 1882.
Primitive civilizations; or, outlines of the history of ownership of
archaic communities. 2 vols London and New York 1894, London
and New York 1897.
Simcox contributed articles and reviews to various periodicals and newspapers,
initially under the pseudonym ‘H. Lawrenny’, including Acad, Cooperative
News, Fortnightly Rev, Fraser’s Mag, Labour Tribune,
Nineteenth Cent and Women’s Union Jnl. Some of these are listed in
Wellesley 5 1989.
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The Times 18 Sep 1901.
McKenzie, K. A. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. 1961.
Sir John Skelton 1831–97
See NRA for letters. Notable collection in the Nat Lib of Scotland.
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Nugae criticae: occasional papers written at the seaside. By Shirley
[pseud]. Edinburgh 1862.
Thalatta! or the great commoner: a political romance. Edinburgh
1862. Preface signed ‘S’.
A campaigner at home. By Shirley [pseud]. 1865. A novel, rptd from
Fraser’s Mag.
John Dryden: ‘in defence’. 1865. Rptd from Fraser’s Mag.
Spring songs, by a western Highlander. Ed and partly written by
Skelton 1865.
Benjamin Disraeli: the past and the future. By A democratic Tory
[pseud]. 1868.
The great Lord Bolingbroke, Henry St John. An address. Edinburgh
1868.
The boarding-out of pauper children in Scotland. Edinburgh 1876.
The impeachment of Mary Stuart. Edinburgh 1876.
Essays in romance and studies from life. Edinburgh 1878. Sketches
and short stories.
The crookit Meg: a story of the year one. 1880. Rptd from Fraser’s
Mag.
Essays of Shirley. Edinburgh 1882, 2 vols 1883.
Essays in history and biography, including the defence of Mary
Stuart. Edinburgh 1883.
Maitland of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart. 2 vols
Edinburgh 1887–8.
The handbook of public health: a complete edition of the Public
Health and other sanitary acts relating to Scotland. Edinburgh
1890, suppl Edinburgh 1891, Edinburgh 1898 (rev by J. P.
MacDougall and A. Murray).
The Local Government (Scotland) Act in relation to public health.
Edinburgh 1890, 1890 (enlarged).
Mary Stuart. 1893.
The table-talk of Shirley. Edinburgh 1895. Reminiscences of and
letters from Froude, Thackeray, Disraeli, Browning, Rossetti,
Kingsley, Baynes, Huxley, Tyndall et al.
Summers and winters at Balmawhapple. 2 vols Edinburgh 1896. Ser
2 of The table-talk of Shirley, above; appeared originally in
Blackwood’s Mag.
Charles I. Edinburgh 1898.
Editions and introductions
Dickson, W. G. A treatise on the law of evidence in Scotland. 1864
(2nd edn 2 vols). Ed Skelton, together with W. Ellis Cloag.
Wilson, J. The comedy of the noctes ambrosiana. Selected by Skelton
1876, New York 1884 (as Noctes Ambrosiana).
The royal house of Stuart: illustrated by a series of forty plates in
colours drawn from relics of the Stuarts by W. Gibb. Introd by
Skelton, notes by W. H. St J. Hops 1890.
Skelton wrote numerous reviews and articles, especially for Blackwood’s
Mag and Fraser’s Mag; for his contributions to these periodicals and to
Contemporary Rev, Cornhill Mag, Guardian, Macmillan’s Mag,
North Br Rev and St Paul’s Mag, see Wellesley 5 1989. He also contributed
to Edinburgh essays, by members of the university, Edinburgh 1857.
Some of his essays were collected in anthologies, such as Great English
essayists, ed W. J. Dawson and C. W. Dawson, 1909.
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Henderson, T. F. The casket letters and Mary, Queen of Scots . . . With
reply to objections [urged by Skelton]. 1890 (2nd edn).
Obits: Scotsman 21 July 1897; The Times 21 July 1897; Daily Chron 22
July 1897. [jmb]
G. W. Steevens,George Warrington Steevens
1869–1900
Mss located in Berg Collection, NYPL; King’s College, Cambridge; Nat Lib of
Scotland.
Bibliographies
See Wellesley vol 5 1989.
Collections and selections
The works of George Warrington Steevens. Ed G. S. Street 7 vols
Edinburgh and London 1900–2 (Memorial edn with memoir by
W. E. Henley in vol 1).
Chapters from ‘In India’. 1927 (Readers of Today ser).
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Naval policy: with some account of the warships of the principal
powers. 1896, New York 1896.
reviews: Athenaeum 24 Oct 1896; Literary World 20 Nov 1896;
Spectator 28 Nov 1896; Speaker 13 Feb 1897.
Monologues of the dead. Edinburgh and London 1896, 1902.
reviews: Acad 26 Sep 1896, 30 Jan 1897; Literary World 4 Apr
1902.
The land of the dollar. Edinburgh 1897 (3 edns), New York 1897,
1898, 1900 (4th & 5th edns), Freeport NY 1971.
reviews: Br Weekly 28 Jan 1897; Acad 6 Feb 1897; Athenaeum 6
Feb 1897; New York Times 13 Feb 1897; Spectator 13 Feb 1897;
Literary World 26 Feb 1897; Blackwood’s Mag Apr 1897; Living
Age May 1897; Chap-Book 1 Aug 1897; Bookman (USA) Sep 1897;
Dial 1 Oct 1897; Nation 28 Oct 1897; New York Times 30 Oct
1897.
With the conquering Turk: confessions of a Bashi-Bazouk.
Edinburgh and London 1897, New York 1897, 1901.
reviews: Athenaeum 20 Nov 1897; Literary World 24 Dec 1897;
Literature 25 Dec 1897; Westminster Rev Feb 1898; New York