Appendix: Serialization Tables Table A.1 Early serial fiction in provincial newspapers Author Serial Agent Author Serial Agent North Briton (Edinburgh) (Founded 1855; bi-weekly) Glasgow Times (Founded 1855; weekly) Serials from early issues Before 1858 No fiction until Jun. 1858. 1855† Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Jessie Melville’ 1856 215 Unsigned ‘Jeanie Gordon’ 1857 Unsigned ‘Lady Alice Glendenning’ AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘Clara Howard’ 1858 1858 Unsigned ‘Mary Maxwell’ Unsigned ‘Grace Gray’ Unsigned ‘Esther Lyman’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Lucy, the Factory Girl’ +EG Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Lucy, the Factory Girl’ +EG 1859 1859 Walter Scott ‘Guy Mannering’ Unsigned ‘Danby Davenport’ Unsigned ‘Ralph Darrell’ +EG Unsigned ‘Ralph Darrell’s Will’ +EG Unsigned ‘Mary Barry’ +EG Unsigned ‘Mary, the Child of Poverty’ +EG Unsigned ‘Helen Graham’ Unsigned ‘Garibaldi, the Hero of Italy’ +EG Unsigned ‘Garibaldi, the Hero of Italy’ +EG Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Heiress of Wellwood’ +EG AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘The Heiress of Wellwood’ +EG 1860 1860 AO ‘Lucy’ (D. Pae) ‘The Heir of Douglas’ +EG Unsigned ‘The Candidate’s Wife’ Unsigned ‘The Ruined Cottage’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Heir of Douglas’ +EG 216 AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘The Diamond Hunter’ Unsigned ‘Family Secrets’ 1861 1861 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Nelly Preston’ Unsigned ‘Maggie Burns’ Unsigned ‘Mina’ AO ‘Lucy’ (D. Pae) ‘Caroline Frazer’ +EG Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Lost Child’ +EG Unsigned ‘Margaret Somerville’ 1862 1862 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Flora the Orphan’ Unsigned ‘Fanny the Fortune Teller’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Norah Cushaleen’ Unsigned ‘The Kentucky Pioneer’ Unsigned ‘Adam Wilkie’ Unsigned (David Pae?) ‘The Forged Will’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Biddy Macarthy’ Unsigned ‘The Abducted Bride’ AO ‘Willie Baxter’ ‘Mysie Hyslope’ 1863 1863 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Basil Hamilton’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Agnes Hardcastle’ Unsigned ‘Constance Marden’ AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘Very Hard Times’ Unsigned ‘Blanche de Cressy’ Unsigned ‘Lizzie Gray’ 1864 1864 Unsigned “Tis Forty Years Since’ Unsigned ‘Magdalene’ AO ‘Lucy’ (D. Pae) ‘Captain Wilde’s Gang’ Unsigned ‘Old Israel’ Unsigned ‘Margaret and Madeline’ +EG Fenton Farrel ‘Jeanie Cameron’ Unsigned ‘Effie Baird’ Unsigned ‘Madeline Lennox’ +EG AO “Tis Forty Years Since’ ‘Deacon Brodie’ Unsigned ‘The Ladies of the Monastery’ (Dundee) People’s Journal (founded 1858; weekly) Sheffield Daily Telegraph (founded 1855; fiction in Sat. edn) 1858–62 Tales in 1–4 pts, mainly competition stories, Before 1864 No fiction before W.C. Leng took over the paper in 1864 local, anonymous. 1863 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Factory Girl’ 1864 1864 AO ‘Greensleeves’ ‘The Legacy’ M. Bouilly ‘Popular Stories’ AO ‘The Factory Girl’ (D. Pae) ‘Mary Paterson’ +DS 1865 1865 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Gipsy’s Prophecy’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Heir of Douglas’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Eustace the Outcast’ +DS Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Fatal Error’ +DS Unsigned (Reuben Hallam) ‘Wadsley Jack’ 1866 1866 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Effie Seaton’ +DS AO ‘The Fatal Error’ (D. Pae) ‘Eustace, the Outcast’ +DS Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Haunted Castle’ +DS Reuben Hallam ‘Wadsley Jack’s Married Life’ 1867 1867 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘George Dalton’ AO ‘Eustace the Outcast’ (D. Pae) ‘Effie Seaton’ +DS Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Laird of Birkencleuch’ ‘A Private Soldier’ ‘Tales of the Barrack Room’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Haunted Castle’ +DS 1868 1868 Unsigned ‘Agnes Glen’ AO ‘The Fatal Error’ (D. Pae) ‘Lucy the Factory Girl’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Jeannie Sinclair’ +DS Byron Webber ‘Tried and Acquitted’ 1869 1869 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Cast on the World’ +DS AO ‘The Fatal Error’ (D. Pae) ‘Jeannie Sinclair’ +DS Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Clanranald’ 1870 1870 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Isaac Barton’s Crime’ AO ‘Lucy’ (D. Pae) ‘Cast on the World’ +DS 1871 1871 Unsigned ‘The Abbot of Aberbrothock’ AO ‘Eustace the Outcast’ (D. Pae) ‘Very Hard Times’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Helen Moir’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Foster Brother’ 1872 1872 AO ‘The Foster Brother’ ‘Annabel, or the Temptation’ +DS Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘The Captain’s Bride’ (D. Pae) 1873 1873 Unsigned ‘The Rival Clansmen’ AO ‘Grace Hamilton’ ‘Tontine’ (R.B. Bannister) M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T AO ‘Eustace the Outcast’ (D. Pae) ‘Annabel, or the Temptation’ +DS Unsigned ‘Jessie, the Key-Keeper’s M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T Daughter’ 217 AO ‘The Foster Brother’ ‘Mayhew, the Millspinner’ (D. Pae) 1874 1874 218 ‘Johnny Geddes’ ‘The Adventures of a Scottish M.E. Braddon ‘A Strange World’ *T Packman’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Victor Moredant’ +DS Frederick Talbot ‘Lottie’s Fortune’ Unsigned ‘The Ploughman Student’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Victor Moredant’ +DS Unsigned ‘Harold the Outlaw’ Sheffield Independent (founded in 1819; daily from 1861; fiction in Sat. edn) Before Jan. 1866 No fiction. 1873 1866 Dr Maurice Davies ‘Sixty Per Cent’ *Ld Unsigned (R.E. Leader) ‘Judith Lee’ Mrs Geo. Skelton ‘Donna’ John Thomas ‘The Story of Birley Vale Unsigned ‘The Recluse of the Old Collieries’ Water Tower’ 1867 Perrin Browne ‘On this Side of the Grave’ AO ‘Kate Brownville’ ‘A Trade Dispute and What (W.C. Hepburn) Became of It’ 1874 Daniel A. McKinlay ‘Saint Olave’s Chase’ Unsigned ‘The Peasants’ War’ *Ld James Pitt ‘Lost and Won’ Unsigned ‘Sam Holberry, the Chartist’ J.S. Borlase ‘The Adventures of a 1868 Mounted Trooper’ AO ‘Kate Brownville’ ‘The Dervishes of Wimpole AO ‘Gerald Fitzgerald’ ‘Boughton Manor’ (W.C. Hepburn) Manor’ Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Hard Pressed’ R.D. Dowling ‘The Loss of the Dream’ *Ld 1870 Florence Marryat ‘Fighting the Air’ *T Unsigned ‘Lost, Stolen, or Strayed’ 1871 1875 Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Under the Yellow Flag’ Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Under Wild Skies’ *Ld W.C. Hepburn ‘The Heir of Dean Hall’ Blanchard Jerrold ‘Black-Eyed Susan’s Boys’ *T Unsigned ‘Fortune’s Fool’ Mortimer Collins ‘A Fight with Fortune’ E. Owens Blackburne ‘A Woman Scorned’ *Ld 1872 J. Riding Ware ‘The Grey Lady’ Geo. Manville Fenn ‘A Ray of Light’ Bolton Weekly Journal (founded 1871) Bolton Weekly Guardian (founded 1859) Serial novels from first issue. No fiction before Oct. 1873., when Supplement first issued. 1871 Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Jessie Melville’ 1872 AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘The Haunted Castle’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Biddy McCarthy’ 1873 1873 AO ‘Jessie Melville’ (D. Pae) ‘Effie Seaton’ Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Lucy the Factory Girl’ M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T AO ‘Fortune’s Fool’ ‘Ninety-Eight’ *Ld 1874 1874 M.E. Braddon ‘A Strange World’ *T AO ‘Lucy the Factory Girl’ ‘Very Hard Times’ (D. Pae) J.E. Muddock ‘The Great White Hand’ *T Unsigned ‘The Secret Marriage’ *Ld Unsigned ‘The Peasant’s War’ *Ld Unsigned ‘The Stolen Will’ *Ld Dr Maurice Davies ‘Sixty Per Cent’ *Ld Ernest King ‘The Coquette’ J.J.G. Bradley (J.S. Borlase) ‘May Mortimer’s Mistake’ *T Florence Marryat ‘Fighting the Air’ *T 1875 1875 M.E. Braddon ‘Dead Men’s Shoes’ *T Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Under Wild Skies’ *Ld Unsigned (J. Bradbury) ‘Grace Barton’ *T Alphonse Daudet ‘Born to Trouble’ ? Mayne Reid ‘A Brother’s Revenge’ *T Frank Lee Benedict ‘Madame’ *T B.L. Farjeon ‘At the Sign of the Silver *T Flagon’ 1876 1876 M.E. Braddon ‘Weavers and Weft’ *T AO ‘Grace Barton’ (J. Bradbury) ‘Fatal Trust’ Mary Cecil Hay ‘The Arundel Motto’ *T Unsigned (D. Pae) ‘Flora the Orphan’ Dora Russell ‘Footprints in the Snow’ *T Unsigned ‘The Two Lads’ Florence Marryat ‘Her Father’s Name’ *T (Plymouth) Western Daily Mercury (founded 1860; fiction in Sat. edn) (Plymouth) Western Weekly News (founded 1861) 1860–70 Mainly short tales (1-3 parts), often signed, some local, 1861–70 From at least 1864, regular complete tales (1–4 pts), some some from metropolitan journals, some translated from French or initialled, but most anonymous, many local but some adapted from 219 German. Even in early 1870s serials only occasional. French or German. Even in early 1870s serials only occasional. 220 1871 1871 M.A. Paull ‘Lady Ingaret’ Unsigned ‘A Secret of Long Ago’ M.A. Paull ‘Phantoms of Waterloo’ 1873 1873 Selwyn Eyre ‘The Artiste’s Picture’ Annie Thomas ‘That Old Love Again’ M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T AO ‘Adele Dorevant’ ‘Janet MacGregor’ Selwyn Eyre ‘First-Foot’ 1874 1874 M.E. Braddon ‘A Strange World’ *T Emma Hall ‘Nigh Unto Death’ Florence Marryat ‘Fighting the Air’ *T Selwyn Eyre ‘The Lawyer’s Prediction’ Sidney Shelley ‘Shaugh Bridge’ Mrs S.R. Townshend-Mayer ‘Nora’s Dowry’ (Cardiff) Weekly Mail (founded 1870) (Dublin) Penny Despatch (founded 1861; weekly) Serials from first issue. Before 1872 From late 1860s, no serials, but generally one complete tale per issue, anonymous, with no provenance, occasionally local. 1870 Arthur Sketchley ‘Married in Haste’ AO ‘Light and Shade’ ‘Profit and Loss’ Unsigned ‘Moved by Two Passions’ Countess von Bothmer ‘Cruel as the Grave’ 1871 Unsigned ‘The Mystery of Paul Wakenden’ Carl Morganwg ‘Gwendoline Margrave’ 1872 1872 Francis Vacher ‘Disappearances Extraordinary’ Unsigned ‘A Bone of Contention’ Unsigned ‘Hilary’ Unsigned ‘The Sister’s Crime’ 1873 1873 M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T Unsigned ‘Helena MacDonald’ Unsigned ‘Lady Darville’ M.E. Braddon ‘Taken at the Flood’ *T AO ‘Fortune’s Fool’ ‘Ninety-Eight’ *Ld R.D. Dowling ‘The Loss of the Dream’ *Ld 1874 1874 M.E. Braddon ‘A Strange World’ *T M.E. Braddon ‘A Strange World’ *T Florence Marryat ‘Fighting the Air’ *T E. Owens Blackburne ‘Refining Fire’ Sidney Fitzerin ‘The Last Tenants of Castle Gerald’ R.B. Curtis ‘Macmahon’ Florence Marryat ‘Fighting the Air’ *T 1875 1875 M.M. Erckmann-Chatrian ‘The Blacksmith of E. Owens Blackburne ‘A Woman Scorned’ *Ld Felsenbourg’ Mrs Dark ‘The Roll Call’ ? E. Owens Blackburne ‘Aunt Delia’s Heir’ Alphonse Daudet ‘Born to Trouble’ ? Frank Lee Benedict ‘Madame’ *T Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Under Wild Skies’ *Ld Selwyn Eyre ‘A Woman’s Shadow’ *T Geo. Manville Fenn ‘Under Wild Skies’ *Ld Newcastle Weekly Chronicle (founded 1864) 1864–72 Occasional short serials (eg Thomas Doubleday’s ‘The Countess’, in 13 pts in 1871), but principally tales (1–3 parts), either from metropolitan/overseas journals, translated from French/German, or ‘Original Local Tales’ (eg J.G.