----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [GO] sequels/series
> Pam writes: > > I wondered when book sequels & series first became common? . . .Series > feature largely in GO fiction - was there anything much before Alcott / > Montgomery / Oxenham series & Brazil's pairs? Ellen suggested > The earliest I can think of at the moment are The Fairy Bower and The > Lost Brooch by Harriett Mozley, both published in 1841. Charlotte Yonge > saw them as the inspiration for the whole genre of books for girls. > I've not read Sandford and Merton but the publication dates are 1783-1789 so I assume it was published in several volumes. I don't think we are ever going to come up with an official 'earliest sequel' ! There's also Through the Looking Glass which hasn't been mentioned. There's also Leila books of the 1840s (the first is 1839, the second 1842 - I've been looking through Gillian Avery !). But I think American children's writers have always been more series conscious - as well as Alcott, there's Katy and Elsie. And there has never been a British equivalent to the Stratmeyer (sp) syndicate books - the nearest is some of the story papers which would draft in subsitute authors when the main one was on holiday. I don't own the Phantom Friends guide to series but IIRC that includes quite a few nineteenth century books. Nicky -- ________________________________________ Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girlsown/faq-0.htm
