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Reilly And Lee
The Reilly and Britton Company, known after 1918 as Reilly & Lee, was an American publishing company of the early and middle 20th century, best known for children's and popular culture books from authors like L. Frank Baum and Edgar A. Guest. Founded in 1904 by two former employees of George M. Hill's publishing company, Frank Kennicott Reilly and Charles Britton, the company would later be guided by William F. Lee until it was acquired by the Henry Regnery Company in 1959. Founding When the Chicago publishing firm of George M. Hill, the publisher of the first edition of Baum's '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900), went out of business in March 1902, two of its employees, head salesman Sumner Charles Britton and production manager Frank Kennicott Reilly, formed their own publishing venture, the Madison Book Company of Chicago. (Britton was an Arkansas native who first came to Chicago in 1893, to report on the World's Columbian Exposition for The Kansas City Star. He was strongly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include " The Emperor's New Clothes", " The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", " The Steadfast Tin Soldier", " The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", " The Snow Queen", " The Ugly Duckling", " The Little Match Girl", and " Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. Early life Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. He had a stepsister named Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Fortune Hunters
The Boy Fortune Hunters is a series of adventure novels for adolescent boys. They were written by L. Frank Baum, using the pseudonym of Floyd Akers, and published by Reilly & Britton.Diane McClure Jones & Rosemary Jones, ''Boys' & Girls' Book Series'', page 41, Collector Books, 2002 Howard Heath illustrated the books. The first book in the series was published in 1908, the last book was published in 1911, and advertising shows that the series continued to be sold until at least 1918. The books were bound in brown cloth, with an illustration on the front cover. A newspaper advertisement promoted the series by stating: "The author has a knack of taking his readers into the various parts of the world and giving them not only the adventures that can be found there, but also a local color which proves to be instructive and entertaining." Sam Steele adventures In 1906 Baum, writing as Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, published the boys’ novel ''Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Policeman Bluejay
''Policeman Bluejay'' or ''Babes in Birdland'' is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. First published in 1907, Jack Snow considered it one of the best of Baum's works. The Book In 1906 Baum wrote, and his publisher Reilly & Britton published, a set of six tales for young children, called ''The Twinkle Tales'' after their little-girl protagonist. The six were issued in separate chapbooks, but later collected into a volume titled ''Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland''. The series was a hit; Reilly & Britton sold 40,000 copies of the little books in a short time. Such commercial success justified a sequel: Baum took his Policeman Bluejay character from the Twinkle Tale "Bandit Jim Crow" and cast him in a separate novel, to be issued the following year. Baum published many works – adventure stories, melodramas, and juvenile novels — under pseudonyms; early experience had taught him that he en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
''Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad'' is a young adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. It was the second volume in the ten-novel series ''Aunt Jane's Nieces ''Aunt Jane's Nieces'' is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name " Edith Van Dyne." Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its ...'', which was, after the Oz books, the second greatest success of Baum's literary career. Like the other books in the series, the novel appeared under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne," one of Baum's multiple pseudonyms. Date Though the original edition of ''Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad'' bore the publication date "1906" (the same year as its predecessor book, ''Aunt Jane's Nieces''), the book was actually published "late in 1907." (Baum's adult novel '' The Last Egyptian'', issued in the same period, bears a copyright date of 1907 and a publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Goose's Year Book
''Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children'' is a collection of humorous nonsense poetry written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. It was published in 1907. The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's ''The Twinkle Tales'' (1906), ''Policeman Bluejay'' (1907), and ''L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker'' (1910). As its title indicates, ''Father Goose's Year Book'' was an attempt to capitalize on the prior success of '' Father Goose: His Book'', the 1899 collaboration between Baum and W. W. Denslow that was the dominant best-seller in children's literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Baum had made similar attempts, with uneven results; ''The Songs of Father Goose'' (1900) had been a respectable seller, but other ventures, including a ''Father Goose Calendar'', failed to materialize. The ''Year Book'' was a belated version of the calendar: it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozma Of Oz
''Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein'', published on July 30, 1907, was the official third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books.Peter Glassman, "Afterword," p 271 L. Frank Baum, ''Ozma of Oz'', It is the first Oz book where the majority of the action takes place outside of the Land of Oz. Only the final two chapters take place in Oz itself. This reflects a subtle change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the dangerous land through which Dorothy must win her way back to Kansas; in the third, Oz is the end and aim of the book. Dorothy's desire to return home is not as desperate as in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than hers for him that makes her return. The book was illustrated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maginel Wright Enright
Maginel Wright Enright Barney (June 19, 1877 – April 18, 1966) was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, children's book writer and illustrator. Life Wright Enright was born Margaret Ellen Wright in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the third child of William and Anna Wright. The name "Maginel" was a later creation of her mother's, a contraction of "Maggie Nell". At age two the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Ten years later they moved to Chicago, to be closer to Frank's architectural work, where she eventually attended the Chicago Art Institute. Her first job as a commercial artist was with the Barnes, Crosby Co. of Chicago, where her main task was catalog illustration. There she met Walter J. "Pat" Enright, another young artist, whom she married. Wright Enright gave birth to her daughter Elizabeth on September 17, 1907, in Oak Park, Illinois. The Enrights move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twinkle Tales
''The Twinkle Tales'' is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six stories were issued in separate booklets by Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton, with illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. In 1911, the six eight-chapter stories were collected as ''Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland''—a misnomer, as Chubbins appears in only two stories and few are set in "Nature-Fairyland". The book was followed by '' Policeman Bluejay'', which was retitled ''Babes in Birdland'' for its second edition. Baum later wanted these Bancroft stories published under his own name, and in 1917 his publisher released a second edition of ''Babes in Birdland'' (third edition overall) with Baum's name for the first time. List of stories * ''Mr. Woodchuck'' * ''Bandit Jim Crow'' * ''Prairie-Dog Town'' * ''Prince Mud-Turtle'' * ''Twinkle's Enchantment'' * ''Sugar-Loaf Mountain'' Plot summaries Mr. Woodchuck is about the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunt Jane's Nieces
''Aunt Jane's Nieces'' is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. Inception The book and the series were designed to appeal to the same audience as Louisa May Alcott's '' Little Women'' and ''Little Men.'' This was expressly stipulated in Baum's contract with Reilly & Britton, which stated: :Baum shall deliver to the Reilly and Britton Co. on or before March 1, 1906, the manuscript of a book for young girls on the style of the Louisa M. Alcott stories, but not so good, the authorship to be ascribed to "Ida May McFarland," or to "Ethel Lynne" or some other mythological female. Plot Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Steele's Adventures On Land And Sea
''Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea'' is a juvenile adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. The book was Baum's first effort at writing specifically for an audience of adolescent boys, a market he pursued in the coming years of his career. The novel was first published in 1906, under the pen name "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald", one of Baum's pseudonyms. Audiences and markets Around the turn of the twentieth century (1897–1905), Baum had succeeded in establishing himself as a popular author of children's books, most notably with ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900). By the middle of the twentieth century's first decade, he was working diligently to branch out into other markets. In 1905, he released his first adult novel, ''The Fate of a Crown'' (as the work of "Schuyler Staunton"). In 1906, he issued his first books for adolescent girls, '' Annabel'' (as by "Suzanne Metcalf") and ''Aunt Jane's Nieces'' (by "Edith Van Dyne"), as well as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel (Baum Novel)
''Annabel: A Novel for Young Folk'' is a 1906 juvenile novel written by L. Frank Baum, the author famous for his series of books on the Land of Oz. The book was issued under the pen name "Suzanne Metcalf," one of Baum's various pseudonyms. ''Annabel'' was one of Baum's first efforts to write a novel for adolescent girls – who soon became one of his most important audiences. Literary markets In the years around 1900, Baum had established himself as a successful author of children's literature, most notably with ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is a children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz aft ...''. In the middle of the twentieth century's first decade, he worked to expand his reach into three other potentially lucrative markets. He published his first adult novel, '' The Fate of a Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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