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Journalism

i Journals to which FCH contributed regularly [ln alphabetical order]

  1. The Australasian (Melbourne). [Mrs Hoey began contributing ‘A Lady’s Letter from London’ (unsigned) to the paper’s ‘Society and Fashion’ column on 31 May 1873 and continued to do so, at intervals varying from weekly to four-weekly, until at least August 1904 and possibly until her death in July 1908. (The column continued, in the same style, after her death.) Occasionally her column was titled ‘A Lady’s Letter from Home’ or, as appropriate, ‘A Lady’s Letter from Paris’, ‘Dublin’, ‘Boulogne’, ‘Oberammagau’, etc. See INTRODUCTION.]
  2. Chambers’s Journal. [See also INTRODUCTION and III SHORTER FICTION. DNB states that Mrs Hoey wrote constantly for Chambers’s between 1865 and 1894. In fact her first contribution appeared on 28 Jan 1865 and her last on 23 Oct 1875. During this period she contributed a total of 78 articles, 6 novellas, and 2 novels. Most of her articles were reviews – or, as Chambers more accurately called them, ’digests’ – of travel books. In the period 1865-9 her contributions averaged between 12 and 13 a year, for which.she received an average of about £55 a year. In the period 1870-5 her contributions were much less numerous but included the two novels A Golden Sorrow and The Blossoming of an Aloe. For her shorter contributions (averaging 6 a year), she received an average of about £22 a year. Information from the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal ‘Author’s Ledgers’, on temporary deposit in the National Library of Scotland.]
  3. The Dublin Review [See also INTRODUCTION. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals lists 11 contributions by FCH, some of them conjectural and some probably or certainly written in collaboration with her husband, who was subeditor of the magazine from 18 65 to 1879. An article, ‘Additions and Corrections to the Wellesley Index for The Dublin Review, Jan 1864-July 1900′, by Ann Palmer (Victorian Periodicals Review, 15, Spring 1982:30-37), conjecturally adds two more articles probably written by FCH In collaboration with her husband.]
  4. The Freeman’s Journal (Dublin). [Not sighted. According to DNB, FCH began contributing ‘reviews and articles on art’ in 1853. Her contributions probably ceased when she left Dublin in late 1855 or early 1856.]
  5. The Morning Post (London). [Not sighted. According to DNB, FCH began contributing reviews to the paper when she first went to London in late 1855 or early 1856.]
  6. The Nation (Dublin). [See INTRODUCTION. Not sighted.]
  7. The Spectator. [See also INTRODUCTION. Mrs Hoey contributed one signed article, ‘A Catholic Lady in “Red” Paris’, 15 April 1871, pp. 444-6 (reprinted, unsigned, in Littell’s Living Age, 109[13 May 187l]:431-6), and an enormous number of unsigned reviews. The ‘Record of Articles’ kept by R.H. Hutton (coeditor of the Spectator) from 14 Nov 1874 to 10 Nov 1877 and from 20 Nov 1880 till Hutton’s death on 9 Sep 1897 shows that FCH was the magazine’s most prolific reviewer of travel books in the 1870s and 1880s. She also contributed subleaders on a wide variety of topics, reviews of the ‘lighter’ magazines, and pars for the ‘Current Literature’ page. In the 1870s she seldom reviewed new novels (though the review of Rhoda Broughton’s Joan, 30 Dec 1876, was by her); but in the 1880s she was frequently entrusted with the latest works of Payn, Besant, Justin McCarthy, M.E. Braddon, and George Moore. She also, on occasions, reviewed plays and exhibitions. Her last contribution appeared on 18 May 1895.]
  8. Temple Bar. [See also SHORTER FICTION. In addition to short stories, FCH contributed 4 reviews during the period 1873-8. She also ‘edited’ two short stories published in the journal. Her contributions are listed in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.]
  9. The World. [See also INTRODUCTION. According to DNB, FCH helped Edmund Yates to ‘plan’ The World and was one of its original contributors in 1874. Most of her contributions appear to have been short, unsigned notices of new books for the paper’s ‘Pages in Waiting’ section. Many of them are referred to in her unpublished correspondence with Edmund Downey (see below, VII MANUSCRIPTS). She also contributed occasional signed articles, including one for the ’Pages, in Waiting’ section, on Henry Seton Merriman, 30 Aug 1904, p.351, which is the latest of her literary efforts that I have been able to trace.]

ii Other contributions to journals [in chronological order]

  1. ‘”Red” Paris on Easter Sunday’, Saint Pauls, 8(May 1871):163-76. [Signed.]
  2. ‘Thérèse Tietjens’, Belgravia, 34(Nov 1877); 70-82. [Signed.]