The woman in one and the man in the other adhered closely to the norms of Victorian society.
Lovett Cameron produced The Man Who Didn’t. Soon after it appeared, Victoria Crosse produced The Woman Who Didn’t, and Mrs. The book attracted a great deal of attention, positive and negative, and made its author both famous and infamous.
When the novel appeared several months later, its author was Grant Allen. Allen intended to publish the novel pseudonymously, and Sharp advised him to stick with that intent despite Lane’s indiscretion. Sharp’s focus on this rumor is notable given the likelihood that he himself was recently in Paris with a woman who was not his wife.Ģ In an interesting postscript, Sharp declared the publisher John Lane “should be careful how he speaks,” and advised Allen “not to give himself away.” Having received the manuscript of Allen’s The Woman Who Did and agreed to publish it, Lane let it be known Allen was its author.
Most people, he wrote, knew Allen had been in Paris not with a French woman named Belloc, but with his wife. Allen for a very enjoyable time, Sharp assured her she need not be concerned about a rumor floating through London involving her husband and a “literary Parisian.” Sharp must have mentioned the rumor during the weekend since he was anxious to assure Mrs. Stanley Little, called “a brief respite.” In a letter thanking Mrs. On July 5, he and Elizabeth went to Hindhead in Haslemere, Surrey to spend the weekend with the Grant Allens - which Sharp, in a letter to J. He told Stone that his arrangement with Elkin Mathews specified Stone and Kimble had the right to publish another collection by Sharp, Ecce Puella and Other Prose Imaginings, in America, and the book was issued simultaneously by the two publishers in November. 1 For the first three weeks of July, Sharp was “wildly busy” in London, writing and negotiating with Herbert Stone about American editions of The Gypsy Christ and Other Tales (by W.
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