The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley / Edition 1

by Damian Atkinson

Overview

The text of the book consists of some 150 letters (out of a corpus of 2,500) written by the late nineteenth-century poet, critic, editor and journalist W.E. Henley, to various figures of the period, e.g. R.L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, J.M. Barrie, William Archer, Rodin, Wilde, Kipling, Arthur Morrison, Alice Meynell, and Edmund Gosse. Letters are also included to other figures within Henley’s immediate circle, his wife Anna, his financial backer Fitzroy Bell, Charles Baxter the arbitrator in the quarrel between Henley and Stevenson, and his Edinburgh art collector friend Hamilton Bruce. Each letter is fully annotated. An introduction places Henley within the period and provides a biographical account of his life and literary work which is reflected in his letters. Of particular importance is the role of Henley as editor of London, the Magazine of Art, the Scots Observer and later the National Observer and the New Review.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840146349
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/28/2000
Series:	The Nineteenth Century Series
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Damian Atkinson

Table of Contents

Contents: The ninteenth century general editors’ preface; Introduction; Sources of letters, abbreviations and short titles; Chronology: William Ernest Henley 1849-1903; The Selected Letters 1870-1903: The early years: 1870-81; The world of art: 1881-88; The Scots Observer and the New Review: 1889-97; The final years: 1898-1903; Index.