Editor, the contributor, and the struggle for recognition in mid-Victorian journalism: selected letters of E. S. Dallas with a critical introduction

Abstract

1828 - Born in Jamaica (son of a physician). 1832 - Left Jamaica for Great Britain. 1845 - Registered as a student in the Faculty of Arts, University of Edinburgh. 1850 - Left University without taking a degree; first article for North British Review. 1852 - Poetics; An Essay on Poetry published by Smith, Elder & Co. 1853 - Helps launch the Edinburgh Guardian, and becomes contributor. Marries for the first time, Isabella Glyn, Shakespearean reader, in Glasgow. 1854 - Friendship with Spasmodic poets. 1855 - Correspondence begins with Blackwood. Contributor to the Times ; first article, “Maud and Other Poems," 25 August. Remarriage to Isabella Glyn in London. 1856 - First article for Blackwood's Magazine. 1859 - Entertained by George Smith, for staff of the Cornhill Magazine. 1860 — First article for the Cornhill Magazine. 1864 - First article for MacMillan's Magazine. 1865 - Financial difficulties. Application for Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh: not appointed. 1866 - The Gay Science, 2 vols., published by Chapman & Hall. 1867 - In Paris to cover the Exhibition for the Times. Deserts wife. 1868 - Begins editorship of Once a Week. An abridgement of Clarissa Harlowe. 1870 - In Paris during the siege as a volunteer for the Times. 1874 - Divorce granted to Isabella. 1877 - Kettner’s Book of the Table, A Manual of Cookery under the pseudonym, A. Kettner. 1879 - Death; buried at Kensal-Green.