George Egerton, Keynotes

Sally Brooke Cameron (Queen's University at Kingston Ontario)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1893

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance; Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Prose Fiction Narrative

Resources

Published in 1893, George Egerton’s Keynotes was an immediate success, ushering in a new era of feminist fiction at the fin de siècle. “Egerton” was the pen-name for Mary Chavelita Dunne Bight and Keynotes was her first work of short stories published with the Bodley Head, under the metorship of Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane. Egerton had also sent the collection to William Heinmann for consideration, but would not be deterred when the work was sent back with an offensive rejection letter: “The stories may be many things,” she writes, “but I’m damned if they are mediocre” (qtd in Stetz, 1982, p. 28). Egerton was right to …

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Citation: Cameron, Sally Brooke. "Keynotes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 April 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38882, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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