Hi John, Well spotted. This confirms for certain that the Charles H. Ross I claimed died in 1897 aged 63 is "our" Charles Ross. If the records are right, that ...
Hi All, If Springheeled Jack was by the author of The Confederates Daughter, I may have discovered the author. The Era, July 5, 1863. Grecian Theatre,...
Hi John, Another excellent catch. As far as I can see there is no other clue as to the authorship of Spring-heel'd Jack except the connection to 'The ...
A brief search of what resources I have available to me reveals the following: Alfred Coates, born in Lambeth, Surrey, c.1833. Journalist and playwrite. He...
Hi, Steve -- My Charles Fox edition of Jack lacks a title page, alas, but the cover of the first number reads, "by the Author of TURNPIKE DICK, the Star of the...
Hi Steve, You said, "As well as writing novels, he also wrote a pantomime ('Sleeping Beauty'), nine plays, and managed the Surrey Theatre and Princess's...
From The Working Man's Way in the World. Charles Manby Smith. Portrait of a Popular Author. "One of the main attractions of the paper which we had to produce...
Hi John, I don't have a clue when he was managing those theatres. I can't even remember where I got the information from (someone's autobiography, I think). ...
Hi Bill, Most of the Charles Fox books were either original partworks or reprints from his boys' papers; they rarely had anything to do with earlier 'bloods' ...
Hi all, Edith The Captive and Sweeny Todd all on the same bill at the 'Bleedin' Vic!" Miss Helen Love played Edith and other names are familiar from The...
Hi, Steve -- I was aware there was an earlier or ur-SJ and a later Fox version; I thot the "by the author of" credit in the Fox run was worth noting, since it...
Hi Bill, Apologies for stating the obvious. Yes, the "by the author of 'Turnpike Dick'" is definitely a useful title link (the singular of a title chain!) The...
Hi, Steve -- You've probably already read my reply to Jess regarding his offer to index the Boys Standard and Boys Leisure Hour runs I have on hand, and I...
Hi, Steve, Jess, and all -- I fumble-fingered the page nunber of the Varney reference in volume two of The Boys Leisure Hour: it should be page 395 (second...
Hello, there was a short serial (about 25,000 words) about ST that appeared in The Boy's Standard in 1885. I think it was intended as an appetizer for the...
Hi Bill, You mentioned "The GG serial is unillustrated even from the start (unlike the other serials starting in the new paper), which suggests it may have had...
Hi Justin, Nice to be able to read this at long last. I think you'll find that this was a reprint. The story (and Spring-Heeled Jack) had originally appeared...
Hi Justin, Forgot to ask this in my last post. You have an advert for SHJ up on your site that comes from The Boy's Standard. What's the date of that issue? ...
Hello Steve, Frank Jay says that both Todd and Spring Heeled Jack appeared in Vol. 5, 1878, of The Boys Standard. What I am not sure of is whether these...
Jan 8, 1886--I did put it on the site--just hover the cursor over the picture. I'll get Waite off to you in the next week or so, let me know if I missed any...
Justin, "I did put it on the site -- just hover the cursor over the picture." D'oh! So it was completed by Christmas 1886. Now all we need is advertising for...
Hi Justin, I did a listing of all the early Hogarth House partworks and books based on adverts in the Emmett boys papers and they were surprisingly consistent....
Hi Steve; There is one author we forgot as a suspect for Edward Ellis, John Wilson Ross. Another with a Charley Wag attribution. From Peeps : "Towards the end...
John, You're forgetting that we discussed John Wilson Ross many months ago during the initial round of talks about who Edward Ellis might be: he's a ...
John, A little further thought: "From John Dix, Lions: Living And Dead. "A third gentleman was really a clever and extremely well informed person-tall, with...
Hi Steve, We cover so much stuff on here I forget some of it. I read that wrong , J. W.Ross was, of course, the West Indian. So it looks to me like Ellis, if a...
A quick note just to say that amongst the next batch of files that will be going up onto the Story Paper Index will be a handful of issues of Boy's Standard...
Hi all, Spring Heeled Jack was dramatized numerous times, but this was one version (the Fox version?) that was reviewed in the Era. It began at the Marleybone...
Hello! I'm looking for advice on finding the text (hopfully in e-text or reprints because I can't afford anything else) of the penny dreadful Gothic stories, ...
