[Particularly in the last 20 years of his life, Yates had a large circle of distinguished friends and acquaintances. This being so, many other contemporary references to and personal reminiscences of him could no doubt be found in addition to those listed below.
The list below includes only a few of the important standard reference works (biographical dictionaries, encyclopaedias, etc.) which contain entries on Yates; for other entries, see Dennis La Beau, Author Biographies: Master Index. 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978. ]
225. à Beckett, Arthur William. Recollections of a Humourist, Grave and Gay. London: Pitman, 1907, pp. 89-91.
226. —–. The a Becketts of ‘Punch’ . London: Constable, 1903, pp. 202-4.
227. Allibone, S.A. A Critical Dictionary of Britishand American Authors. Philadelphia: J.B. Lipincott, 1880, 3:2883; Supplement, 1891, 2:1557.
228. Baker, E.A. [See under I NOVELS – Black Sheep]
229. [Bancroft, S.B. and Mrs] Mr and Mrs Bancroft;On and Off the Stage. London: Bentley, 1888, 2:passim. [includes verses by Yates (see under IV VERSE) and an otherwise-unpublished letter.]
230. Boase, Frederick. Modern English Biography [1592]. London: Frank Cass, 1965, 3:1553-5.
231. Borowitz, Albert. ‘The Unpleasantness at the Garrick Club’, The Victorian Newsletter, 53 (Spring 1978):16-23.
232. Burnand, Sir Francis C. Records and Reminiscences, Personal and General. 2 vols. London: Methuen, 1904, passim.
233. Corelli, Marie. Obituary, ‘The Last Days of Edmund Yates’, Temple Bar, 102 (July 1894): 378-84.
234. Dictionary of National Biography [‘T.S.’: i.e. Thomas Seccombe], 21:1202-5.
235. Downey, Edmund. Twenty years Ago; A Book ofAnecdote Illustrating Literary Life in London. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905, pp. 247-8.
236. Edwards, P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers;the Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Its Foes. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1971, pp. 7,23n.
237. Encyclopaedia Britannica, The. 11th ed., Cambridge University Press, 28:907-8.
238. Escott, T.H.S. Obituary, ’Edmund Yates, an Appreciation and a Retrospect’, New Review, 11 (July 1894):87-97.
239. ——. Platform, Press, Politics and Play. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, r?1895H, pp. 362-7.
240. ——. ‘Some Talkers of My Time’, Chambers’sJournal, 9 (2 June 1906):427-31.
241. ——. Masters of English Journalism. London: Fisher Unwin, 1911, pp. 260-5.
242. ——. Anthony Trollope; His Public Services,Private Friends, and Literary Originals. London: John Lane, 1913, pp. 146-52.
242. ——. Club Makers and Club Members. London: Fisher Unwin, 1914, pp. 251-8. See also under X REVIEWS, etc.
243. Fenn, W.W. ‘A Memory of an Old Young Author’, Chambers’s Journal, 8 (7 Jan 1905):95-6.
244. Fitzgerald, Percy. The Garrick Club. London: Elliot, Stock, 1904, pp. 59-70.
245. ——. Memoirs of an Author. London: Bentley, 1895, 1:115-19.
246. ——. Memories of Charles Dickens [l913]. N.Y.: Benjamin Bloom, 1971, pp. 20, 289-91.
247. Fitzsimons, Raymund. The Baron of Piccadilly;the Travels and Entertainments of Albert Smith, 1816-1860. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967, passim.
248. Fox Bourne, H.R. English Newspapers; Chaptersin the History of Journalism. London: Chatto and Windus, 1887, 2:271,300-313.
249. Furniss, Harry. My Bohemian Days. London: Hurst and Blackett, [1919]], p. 30.
250. —–. Some Victorian Men. London: John Lane, 1924, pp. 37-40, 165-6.
251. Gross, John. The Rise and Fall of the Man ofLetters [1968[|. Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1973, pp. 109-11.
252. Gwynn, Stephen and Tuckwell, Gertrude M. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke. London: John Murray, 1917, p. 289.
253. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot, a Biography. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968, p. 549.
254. Hamilton, E.W. The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880-1885, ed. Dudley W.R. Bahlman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, 2:774.
255. Hatton, Joseph. Journalistic London; being a series of sketches of famous pens and papers of the day. London: Sampson, Low, etc. 1882, pp. 85-91,103-110.
256. Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde; a Biography. N.Y.: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1975, pp. 40,49,58.
257. Illustrated London News, The. Obituary notice with photograph, 104 (26 May 1894):643.
258. Johnson, E.D.H. Charles Dickens; His Tragedy and Triumph. London: Gollancz, 1953, passim. [Yates was a close friend of Dickens and there are glimpses of him in most biographies of Dickens.]
259. Lewes, G.H.H The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954, 3:378.
260. McCarthy, Justin. Reminiscences. London: Chatto and Windus, 1899, 1:166-7.
261. Mitchell, Sally. ‘Sentiment and Suffering; Women’s Recreational Reading in the 1860s’, Victorian Studies, 21 (Autumn 1977):29-45.
262. Mix, Katherine Lyn. A Study in Yellow; the Yellow Book and Its Contributors. N.Y.: Greenwood Press, 1969, p. 98n.
263. Moore, George. Vale [1914]]. London: Heinemann, 1947, pp. 79-80.
264. Once a Week. ‘Edmund Yates’, 27 (27 July 1872): 78. [With cartoon of Yates, captioned ‘A Waiting Race‘.]
265. Pall Mall Gazette. ‘A New Type of Journalist’, 18 Feb 1865, p. 6. Unsigned. [Attacks Yates as ‘Neddy Yapp’.]
266. Sadleir, Michael. Trollope; a Commentary [ 1927]. Revised ed., London: Constable, 1945, pp. 197, 204-6,213-14.
267. Sala, G.A. Echoes of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Three. London: Remington and Co., 1884, p. 115.
268. ——. The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala. London: Cassell, 1895, 1:395, 2:17-18.
269. ——. ‘Twice Round the Clock’, The Welcome Guest, no. 22 (25 Sept 1858):345-6. Rpt. Twice Round the Clock. London: J. & R. Maxwell, n.d., pp. 310-11,313-14.
270. Sala, Mrs George Augustus. Famous People I Have Met. London: Osgood, Mcllvaine, 1892, 87-97.
271. Scott, Clement. The Drama of Yesterday and Today. London: Macmillan, 1899, passim.
272. ——. Obituary, Daily Telegraph, 21 May 1894. [Not sighted.]
273. Shaw, George Bernard. Collected Letters 1874-1897, ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt, 1965, passim.
274. Sherard, Robert Harborough. Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde. London: Werner Laurie, 1937, pp. 110-13,132-3, etc.
275. Swinburne, A.C. T.fae Swinburne Letters, ed. Cecil Y. Lang. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959-62, passim.
276. Thackeray, W.M. The Letters and Private Papers of W.M. Thackeray, ed. Gordon N. Ray. London: O.U.P., 1946, 4:passim.
277. ——.On Screens in Dining Rooms’, Roundabout Papers, The Oxford Thackeray, 17: 406-12. Rpt. from the Cornhill Magazine, August 1860.
278. ——. The Virginians, chap. 35 (Oxford Thackeray, 15:361).
279. Thorold, Algar Labouchere. The Life of Henry Labouchere. London: Constable, 1913, pp. 26-7,97-101.
280. Times, The. Obituary notice, 21 May 1894, p. 6.
281. Tinsley, William. Random Recollections of an Old Publisher. London: Simpkin, Marshall, etc., 1900, 1:137-43,324,328-9.
282. Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography Cl883H. World’s Classics ed., London: O.U.P., 1980, pp. 370-1.
283. ——. The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. Bradford A. Booth. London: O.U.P., 1951, p. 41.
284. Truth. Obituary, 24 May 1894. [Not seen. Cited in DNB.]
285. Vizetelly, Henry. Glances Back through Seventy Years. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, etc., 1893, 2:13-15,105-10.
286. W—– , F. ‘Obituary. Edmund Yates’, The Academy, 45 (26 May 1894):437.
287. W——, F.M. ’Light Literature’, Belgravia, 20 (Hay 1873 ):333.
288. Weintraub, S. Whistler; A Biography. N.Y.: Weybright and Talley, 1974, passim.
289. [Whistler, J.M.N.] The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [l890]. London: Heinemann, 1912. [Contains many allusions to critiques of and correspondence about Whistler’s art in The World and elsewhere. There are several ’public’ letters from Whistler to Yates (under his pseudonym of ’Atlas’); some of Yates’s editorial ripostes are also printed.]
290. Wilde, Oscar. The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Hart-Davis, 1962, pp. 94,191.