The Woman Who Didn’t
1. The Woman Who Didn’t. By Victoria Crosse [sic]. London: John Lane; Boston: Roberts, 1895. Keynotes Series No. 19. Title page by Aubrey Beardsley. 159pp [EC August. The BL copy has advertisements for John Lane publications, dated 1895, and listing Victoria Cross, Consummation: A Novel (in preparation).]
2. The Woman Who Did Not [sic].Boston: Roberts, 1895. 160pp.
3. The Woman Who Didn’t. Popular edition. London: John Lane [1909], 166pp. [EC August]
4. The Woman Who Didn’t. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [c. 1911]. 159pp.
5. Chicago: Argus [c. 1918]. [AC]
6. Computer file. Machine readable transcription, ed. Perry Willett. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, LETRS, 1999.
Paula: A Sketch from Life
7. Paula: A Sketch from Life. London: Walter Scott [1896]. 377pp. [EC October]
8. Twelfth edition. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1896]. 377pp.
9. London: Walter Scott [1897], 377pp.
10. New York: George Munro’s Sons, 1898. Seaside Library. [AC]
11. Paula: roman eenertooneelspeelster. Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1905.
12. Another edition of the Dutch translation. Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1908.
13. New York: Kensington Press [1908], 223pp. [Kensington Press does not seem to be listed as a publisher in the American Catalogue; the Widener Library copy bears the imprint of George Munro’s Sons on the verso of the title page.]
14. New York: Fenno, 1908. [AC. I have found no copy of this book and 1 wonder whether it is the same as 13 above. This conjecture seems to be supported by the fact that the same is true of the first American edition of Anna Lombard in 1902. See below 40, 41.]
15. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1908]. 317pp.
16. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1908] 374pp. According to Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), 31, Kennerley seems sometimes to have acted merely as the distributor for several of Cross’s books in America, pasting his own label over the title page of English editions. Bruccoli cites Paula and also To-morrow? as existing in this form, and the same seems to be true of Six Women. One would have expected his page numbering to coincide with the English edition, however.]
17. New York: Macaulay, 1915. [According to AC this firm published thirteen of Cross’s novels in 50c format in 1914-15. Some of these are described in AC as belonging to the ‘Crown Novels’ series, and it may well be that they all did.]
18. Popular edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1917]. Laurie’s Shilling Net Books Series. 230pp. [EC June] Paperback with illustrated cover.
19. Twenty-third edition. London: Walter Scott, 1923. 377pp. [EC May]
20. Twenty-fourth edition. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [1923/4], 377pp.
21. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1935], 288pp. [EC September]
22. Microfilm. London: British Library, 1994.
23. Microfiche. The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers Collection. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994.
A Girl of the Klondike
24. A Girl of the Klondike. London: Walter Scott [1899], 309pp. [EC February. There was also a Colonial Edition of this novel.]
25. Flickan fran Klondyke. A Swedish translation, perhaps by A. Berg. Stockholm: O. Hansen, 1899. 283pp.
26. Twelfth edition. London, New York: Walter Scott [19?] 309pp.
27. New York: Macaulay, [1918] [AC. The undated copies at Harvard and Yale probably relate to this entry in the AC.]
28 Atlantic Library series. Chicago: Max Stein, 1910. [AC]
29. Flickan fran Klondyke. Swedish translation by A. Berg. Stockholm: Holmquist, 1914. 155pp.
30. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1921]. 171pp. [EC June]
31. Flickan fran Klondyke. Stockholm: Bonner, 1923. 164pp.
32. Flickan fran Klondyke. Stockholm: Overs av-taurus, 1926.
33. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1936] Pearson’s New Sixpenny Series. 128pp.
34. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1936] 252pp.
35. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [19?] 317pp.
36. Microfilm. London: British Library, 1994.
37. Microfiche. The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers Collection. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994.
Anna Lombard
38. Anna Lombard. London: John Long [1901]. 313pp. [EC March]
39. Third edition. London: John Long [1902]. 313pp. [With preface defending the book’s Christian teaching against an attack in the Daily Chronicle.]
40. New York: Kensington Press [1902], 216pp.
41. New York: Fenno, n.d. [AC] [Perhaps identical with 40. See note to 14 above: as in the case of Paula 1908, AC lists a Fenno edition but not the Kensington Press one, and it may be that the two names belong to one publisher.]
42 Thirty-seventh edition. London: John Long, 1905. 313pp.
43. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1907. 296pp.
44. Popular edition. London: John Long, 1908. Long’s Shilling Net Series. 318pp. [EC April. Copies exist with this date and ‘49th edition’.]
45. London: A. M. Gardner [ 1908], 318pp.
46. New York: Macaulay, 1915. [AC]
47. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1930. 315pp. [EC February]
48. London: Queensway Library [1934].
49. Anna Lombard. Roman traduit de 1’anglais par Georges Fabret. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1943. 304pp.
50. Fourth edition of the French translation. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1945. 304pp.
51. Italian translation. Tradotto dal testo originale inglese da Giorgio Fevi. Milan: F. Elmo, 1947. 309pp.
52. Another edition of the Italian translation. Milan: F. Elmo, 1949. 285pp.
Six Chapters of a Man’s Life: A Novel
53. Six Chapters of a Man’s Life: A Novel. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne and New York: Walter Scott, 1903. 297pp. [EC August. This was the work of which ‘Theodora: A Fragment’ had been an excerpt. The cover has an applied circular sepia picture of a woman in profile, presumably the author.]
54. Third impression. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne, New York: Walter Scott, 1903. 297pp.
55. Fourth impression. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne, New York: Walter Scott, 1903. 297pp.
56. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1904?]. 267pp. [Not in AC until c. 1911.]
57. Twenty-eighth edition. London, New York: Walter Scott, 1905. 297pp.
58. London, New York: Walter Scott, 1908. 297pp.
59. Sex blad ur en mans lif. Swedish translation by Emilie Kullman. 206pp. Stockholm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1905.
60. New York: Macaulay, 1915.
61. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1917]. 297pp. [EC August]
62. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1918]. Picture Wrapper Series. A reissue.
63. Kartki zycia m czyzny. Powie. Polish translation by Helena Janina Pajderska. 156pp. Gdansk: 1922.
64. New York: Macaulay [192?]. 266pp.
65. Forty-first edition. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1923]. 297pp. [EC May]
66. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1936]. 256pp. [EC April]
67. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1936], Pearson’s New Sixpenny Series. 127pp. [EC July]
To-morrow?
68. To-morrow? London, Newcastle-on-Tyne, New York: Walter Scott, 1904. 301pp. [AC, EC May.]
69. Seventh edition. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1904. 301pp.
70. Twenty-second edition. New York: Walter Scott, 1904. 301pp.
71. New York: Macaulay, 1904. 324pp.
72. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, n.d. [AC. See note to 16 as to Kennerley’s practice of pasting his own label over the title page of English editions.]
73. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1910. A reissue. [EC May. Cross wrote indignantly about this edition to the secretary of the Society of Authors: ‘Mr Crowest, acting as manager for Messrs Walter Scott, has just issued a 1/- edition of To-morrow? … without asking my consent.’ (22 May 1910) BL MS Add 56685 f.89.]
74. New York: Macaulay, 1914. Crown Novels series. 324pp.
75. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1917]. 302pp. A reissue. [EC August]
76. Twenty-fifth edition. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1923]. 302pp. [EC May]
77. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1936]. 251pp. [EC April]
The Religion of Evelyn Hastings
78. The Religion of Evelyn Hastings. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1905. 254pp. [EC January]
79. Eighth impression. London, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1905. 254pp.
80. Evelyn Hastings. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1917]. Popular edition. Laurie’s Shilling Net Books. 157pp. [EC June]
81. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1908]. 291pp.
82. New York: Macaulay, 1915. [AC]
83. Cheap edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1921], 275pp. [EC June]
84. Sixteenth impression. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott. [1923], 278pp. [EC May]
Life of My Heart
85. Life of My Heart. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1905. 390pp. [EC May]
86. Nineteenth edition. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1905. 390pp.
87. Twentieth edition. London: Walter Scott, 1905. 390pp.
88. Popular edition. London: John Long [1914]. Long’s Shilling Net Series. 320pp. [EC June]
89. NewYork: Macaulay, 1915. [AC]
90. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, n.d. [AC, c. 1911]
91. London, Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott [1922? to judge by advertisements]. 390pp.
Six Women (Short stories)
92. Six Women. London: T. Werner Laurie [1906], 293pp. [EC January]
93. Second edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1906], 293pp.
94. Third edition. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1907.
95. Sixth edition. London: T. Werner Laurie, n.d. 293pp.
96. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1906?]. 293pp. Printed in Great Britain. [See p.20 above, for Kennerley’s purchase of 700 copies, and the note to 16 for his practice of distributing English printings with his label on the title page.]
97. Popular edition. Laurie’s Shilling Net Books Series. London: T. Werner Laurie [1912], [EC March]
98. New York: Macaulay [1915]. 293pp.
99. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1915?]. 293pp.
Life’s Shop Window
100. Life’s Shop Window. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1907. 357pp. [EC January]
101. New York: Macaulay, 1907. 371pp.
102 New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1907]. 371pp.
103. Tenth edition. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1908. 371pp.
104. Popular edition. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1909. 371pp.
105. Popular edition. Laurie’s Shilling Reprints. London: T. Werner Laurie [1912]. 357pp [EC September]
106. New York: Macaulay, 1914. [AC 1915]
107. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1923]. 250pp. [EC November]
108. One hundred and sixty-eighth thousand. London: T. Werner Laurie [1935], 357pp. [EC April]
Five Nights: A Novel
109. Five Nights: A Novel. London: John Long, 1908. 350pp. [EC May]
110. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1908. 350pp.
111. Chicago: Argus, 1908. [AC]
112. London: John Long [1911]. Long’s Shilling Net Series. 318pp. [EC July. This would be the edition he altered against her wishes. See above p.21.]
113. Popular edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1916]. 239pp. [EC July]
114. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1918]. 239pp.
115. Popular edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1921], 239pp. [EC June]
116. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1935], 287pp. [EC August]
117. Cinq Nuits. Tr. Georges Fabret. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1944. 312pp.
118. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1945.
The Eternal Fires
119. The Eternal Fires. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1910], 242pp. With a coloured portrait frontispiece of the author. [EC January]
120. The Eternal Fires: A Novel. New York: Mitchell Kennerley [1910]. 365pp. [AC]
121. New York: Macaulay, 1915. [AC ]
122. London: T. Werner Laurie [1917], 242pp.
123. London: T. Werner Laurie [1918], [EC April]
124. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1921]. 242pp. [EC June]
125. De eeuwige vuren: Het verhaal eener ideale liefde. (Cinema-romans No.42) Amsterdam: Internationale bioscoopromanmaatschappij, 1922. [I have not been able to discover any other reference to a film of The Eternal Fires.
126. Amsterdam: 1923. Zie Cinema-romans No. 41.
The Love of Kusuma
127. Bal Krishna, The Love of Kusuma: An Eastern Love Story. London: T. Werner Laurie [1910]. 236pp. [The introduction to this novel is signed Victoria Cross. As Shoshana Knapp has suggested, the novel appears to be written by her rather than by an Indian called Bal Krishna. This may be the work referred to in a letter to Laurie (3 July 1905) as ‘the Indian Tale, of which I am very proud’. Reading University Library. Apart from this there seems to be no trace of the book in the Laurie archives.]
Self and the Other
128. Self and the Other. London: T. Werner Laurie [1911], 303pp. [EC January]
129. New York: W. G. Hewitt, 1911.
130. London: T. Werner Laurie [1918]. [EC October]
The Night of Temptation
131. The Night of Temptation. London: T. Werner Laurie [1912], 276pp, [EC December]
132. New York: Macaulay, 1914. 306pp. Colour frontispiece by H. R. Boehm.
133. New York: Macaulay, 1915. Crown Novels series. [AC]
134. Popular edition. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1916. Laurie’s Shilling Net Books. 276pp. [EC July]
135. Cheap edition. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1932], [EC June]
The Life Sentence
136. The Life Sentence: An Entirely New Novel. London: John Long, 1912. 219pp.
137. Popular edition. London: John Long [1912]. Long’s Shilling Net Series. 219pp. Paperback with picture cover. [EC March]
138. NewYork: Macaulay, 1914. 245pp. [AC 1915]
139. Popular edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1921], 149pp. [EC June]
The Greater Law
140. The Greater Law. London: John Long, 1914. 320pp. [EC July. According to advertisements in Life Of My Heart, 1914, this edition appeared with a dustwrapper in three colours and also in John Long’s Colonial Library in both cloth and paper.]
141. Hilda Against the World. NewYork: Macaulay, 1914. 315pp. [The US edition of The Greater Law. AC indicates this book sold at $1.25.]
142. New York: Macaulay, 1914. [AC. This was a 50c book, perhaps in the Crown Novels series.]
143. Cheaper edition. New York: Macaulay, 1925. [AC]
Daughters of Heaven (short stories)
144. Daughters of Heaven. London: T. Werner Laurie [1920], 285pp. With coloured portrait frontispiece of the author. [EC April] Contents: ‘The Bachelor’ (The Story of Eva); ‘The Vision of Love’ (The Story of Stella); ‘The Price of an Hour’ (The Story of Violet); ‘Their Honeymoon’ (The Story of Nettie); ‘Triumph’ (The Story of Rosa); ‘More Cruel than the Beast of Prey’ (The Story of Lily); ‘Playing the Game’ (The Story of Ada); ‘The Butterflies’ Dance’(The Story of Julia); ‘The Ride into Life’ (The Story of Edna).
145. New York: Brentano’s, 1920. 229pp.
146. New York: Macaulay [c. 1921]. 299pp.
147. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1921], 285pp. [EC February]
148. London: T. Werner Laurie [1922], 255pp. [EC May]
149. Cheaper edition. New York: Macaulay, 1925. [AC]
Over Life’s Edge
150. Over Life’s Edge. London: T. Werner Laurie [1921], 245pp. [EC August]
151. New York: Brentano’s, 1921.
152. New York: Macaulay, 1922. 243pp.
153. Cheaper edition. New York: Macaulay, 1925.
154. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1926], 253pp. [EC August]
155. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1929]. 246pp. [EC February]
The Beating Heart
156. The Beating Heart. London: C. W. Daniel, 1924. 280pp. [EC December]
157. New York: Brentano’s, 1924.
158. Cheap edition. London: C. W. Daniel, 1928. 280pp. [EC May]
159. Boston: Humphries [c. 1933-7], Silver Seal Series. [AC]
Electric Love
160. Electric Love. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. 254pp. With coloured frontispiece. [EC July]
161. New York: Macaulay [1929]. 362pp.
162. Cheaper edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1931], 254pp. [EC June]
163. Cheaper edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1933], [EC September]
164. ‘Electric Love’, L ’Amour electrique. Tr. Georges Fabret. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1946. 303pp. With cover title L ‘amour invincible.
165. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1947.
The Unconscious Sinner
166. The Unconscious Sinner. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1930. 247pp.
167. New York: Macaulay [c. 1930]. 252pp.
168. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1931], 247pp. [EC December]
169. Cheaper edition. New York: Macaulay, 1932. [AC]
170. The Innocent Sinner [s/c]. Cheap edition. London: C. Arthur Pearson [1932], [EC April]
171. Second printing. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1934. 247pp.
172. La pecheresse inconsciente. Tr. G. Fabret. Geneva, Annemasse: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1946. 245pp.
173. La Peccatrice Incosciente. Tr. Giorgio Fevi. Milan: F. Elmo, 1949.
A Husband’s Holiday
174. A Husband’s Holiday. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1932. 250pp. [EC July]
175. Cheap edition. London: T. Werner Laurie [1933]. [EC October]
The Girl in the Studio
176. The Girl in the Studio: The Story of Her Strange New Way of Loving. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1934. 248pp. [EC May]
177. New York: Macaulay, 1934. [AC]
178. Cheap edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1935]. [EC June]
179. Per la tua Felicita: romanzo. Tr. Giorgio Fevi. Milan: F. Elmo, 1947. 200pp.
180. The Girl in the Studio, [sic] A reprint of the Italian translation. Milan, Geneva: F. Elmo, 1949. 200pp.
Martha Brown, M. P.: A Girl of To-Morrow
181. Martha Brown, M. P.: A Girl of To-Morrow. London: T. Wemer Laurie, 1935. 256pp. [EC April]
182. Cheap edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1936], 256pp. [EC March]
183. Marthe Brown, deputee. Roman traduit de l’anglais par Georges Fabret. Geneva: Ed. Reflets, 1947. 215pp.
Jim
184. Jim. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1937. 243pp.
185. Cheap edition. London: T. Wemer Laurie [1938]. [EC March]
186. Toronto: Musson, 1937. [AC]