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The Keepsake was an English literary annual which ran from 1828 to 1857, published each Christmas from 1827 to 1856, for perusal during the year of the title.^[1] Like other literary annuals, The Keepsake was an anthology of short fiction, poetry, essays, and engraved illustrations. It was a gift book designed to appeal to young women, and was distinctive for its binding of scarlet dress silk and the quality of its illustrations. Although the literature in The Keepsake and other annuals is often regarded as second-rate, many of the contributors to The Keepsake are canonical authors of the Romantic period.

Publication history

The first edition of The Keepsake was initiated by the engraver Charles Heath, who initially approached the publisher John Murray but entered an agreement with another publisher, Hurst, Chance, and Co., to publish the first volume.^[2]

Editors

William Harrison Ainsworth edited The Keepsake for 1828. Frederic Mansel Reynolds (c. 1800 to 1850)^[3] took over the editorship for the 1829 to 1835 volumes and again for 1838 and 1839.^[2] Caroline Norton edited The Keepsake for 1836, followed by Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley for the 1837 and 1840 volumes.^[2] Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, edited The Keepsake for 1841 to 1849.^[2] She was succeeded by Marguerite Agnes Power, who edited the annual from 1850 to the final volume in 1857.^[2]

Publishers

The Keepsake was published in London for its full run, and some volumes were also published in Paris, Berlin, and Frankfurt. Its London publishers were Hurst, Chance, & Co.; Jennings and Chaplin; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman (in the Longman line); and David Bogue.^[2] In Paris, it was published by Rittner and Goupill, Delloy & Co., Fisher & Co., Aubert & Co., L. Curmer, Fisher, Son, & Co., and H. Mandeville.^[2] Other continental editions were published by Charles Jugil in Frankfurt, A. Asher in Berlin, and T. O. Weigel in Leipsic.^[2] American editions of The Keepsake were published in New York by D. Appleton & Company and in Philadelphia by Lea and Blanchard.^[2]

Production

The intensely competitive market for gift books drove innovations in book production. The Keepsake's high-quality illustrations were created with steel plates, which were more durable than the copper plates that were more commonly used in the 1830s, and therefore could produce larger editions before being replaced.^[2] These illustrations were often commissioned before the short stories, poems, or essays that they were to accompany.^[4]

Contributors

The Keepsake for 1829 is particularly notable for its contributors, which included the most popular authors and artists of the day, many of whose works now comprise the Romantic literary canon. Well known contributors to this volume include Mary Shelley, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Robert Southey.^[5]

The editors of The Keepsake offered generous compensation to its authors, but many were hesitant to publish their work in The Keepsake or other annuals because these publications were not well respected by critics.^[2]

The Keepsake for 1828

The first annual was edited by William Harrison Ainsworth. It was published by subscription. The names of the contributors were not listed, but they included Felicia Hemans, Percy Shelley, Letitia Landon, and Ainsworth himself.^[6]

The Keepsake for 1829

Following the Table of Contents is this List of Contributors (all caps, no italics):

Sir Walter Scott, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, Lord Normanby, Lord Morpeth, Lord Porchester, Lord Holland, Lord F. L. Gower, Lord Nugent, W. Wordsworth, R. Southey, S. T. Coleridge, William Roscoe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Luttrell, Theodore Hook, J. G. Lockhart, T. Crofton Croker, R. Bernal, M. P., Thomas Haynes Bayly, W. Jerdan, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Landon, M. L., Barry St. Leger, James Boaden, W. H. Harrison, F. Mansel Reynolds, and the authors of Frankenstein, The Roué, and The O'Hara Tales.

"Miss Landon" is L. E. L., or Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Reynolds is the editor of this second annual volume and several later ones, credited on the title page as Frederic Mansel Reynolds.

The volume contains four works, all prose, by Walter Scott as "the Author of Waverley". The first three are now known as The Keepsake Stories.

"My Aunt Margaret's Mirror"
"The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque"
"Death of the Laird's Jock"
"Description of the Engraving Entitled [line break] A Scene at Abbotsford"

Mary Shelley's contributions are "The Sisters of Albano" and "Ferdinando Eboli", two stories "by the author of Frankenstein". Wordsworth's are "The Country Girl", "The Triad", "The Wishing-Gate", and sonnets. Coleridge contributed "The Garden of Boccacio" and some epigrams. Felicia Hemans contributed "The Broken Chain" and Letitia Landon,"The Altered River" and her "Verses" on Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford.

References

^ Frederick W. Faxon (1912), Literary Annuals and Gift Books, Boston: Boston Book Co., OCLC 1436167, OL 6543563M
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Hoagwood, Terence; Ledbetter, Kathryn; Jacobsen, Martin, eds. (1988). "L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829". Romantic Circles. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1896). "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Reynolds, Frederic Mansel" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Feldman 2006, p. 20.
^ Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, ed. (1828). The Keepsake for 1829. London: Hurst, Chance, & Co. "Contents".
^ Feldman 2006.

Citations

Feldman, Paula R. (2006). "Introduction". The Keepsake for 1829. Edited by Paula R. Feldman. Peterborough: Broadview Press (Broadview Facsimile Editions). ISBN 9781551115856. pp. 7–25

External links

British Library 002847015 – "The keepsake for ..." (catalogue record)
The Keepsake 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1848 at Google Books
The Keepsake 1851, 1854, 1857 – digital copies at Internet Archive
"Introduction to The Keepsake" by Romantic Circles.

[1] Frederick W. Faxon (1912), Literary Annuals and Gift Books, Boston: Boston Book Co., OCLC 1436167, OL 6543563M

[:0-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Hoagwood, Terence; Ledbetter, Kathryn; Jacobsen, Martin, eds. (1988). "L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829". Romantic Circles. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[3] Courtney, William Prideaux (1896). "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Reynolds, Frederic Mansel" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[4] Feldman 2006, p. 20.

[5] Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, ed. (1828). The Keepsake for 1829. London: Hurst, Chance, & Co. "Contents".

[6] Feldman 2006.

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+[[File:Keepsake1829.jpg|right|thumb| ''The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX'' (1829) – frontispiece, which repeats publisher data from the title page ]]
-'''''The Keepsake''''' was an English [[literary annual]] which ran from 1828 to 1857, published each Christmas (beginning with Christmas 1827) for perusal during the year of the title.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Boston Book Co. |publication-place = Boston |title = Literary annuals and gift books |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6543563M/Literary_annuals_and_gift_books |author = Frederick W. Faxon |publication-date = 1912 |oclc = 1436167 }}</ref> It was compiled by [[Charles Heath]], edited by [[Frederic Mansel Reynolds]] (later by the [[Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington|Countess of Blessington]]), and published by Hurst, Chance and Company (1828–31), [[Longman|Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown]] (1832-47), and David Bogue (1848–57). Foreign editions were sometimes published in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig and New York.
+'''''The Keepsake''''' was an English [[literary annual]] which ran from 1828 to 1857, published each Christmas from 1827 to 1856, for perusal during the year of the title.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Boston Book Co. |location = Boston |title = Literary Annuals and Gift Books |author = Frederick W. Faxon |date = 1912 |oclc = 1436167 |ol = 6543563M }}</ref> Like other literary annuals, ''The Keepsake'' was an anthology of short fiction, poetry, essays, and engraved illustrations. It was a gift book designed to appeal to young women, and was distinctive for its binding of scarlet dress silk and the quality of its illustrations. Although the literature in ''The Keepsake'' and other annuals is often regarded as second-rate, many of the contributors to The Keepsake are canonical authors of the Romantic period.
+== Publication history ==
-The most important from the point of view of literary history was the second, ''The Keepsake for 1829'' (1828). Heath pursued [[Mary Shelley]], [[Thomas Moore]], [[Walter Scott]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[Felicia Hemans]], and [[Robert Southey]], offering enormous fees. He obtained contributions from all, but the experience was discomforting for both sides, and future volumes avoided writers with high reputations.
+[[File:The Seashore, Cornwall engraving by William Miller after R P Bonington.jpg|thumb|''The Seashore. Cornwall'' engraving by [[William Miller (engraver)|William Miller]] after [[Richard Parkes Bonington|R. P. Bonington]],  published in ''The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI'' (1831)]]
+The first edition of ''The Keepsake'' was initiated by the engraver [[Charles Heath]], who initially approached the publisher [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] but entered an agreement with another publisher, Hurst, Chance, and Co., to publish the first volume.<ref name=":0"/>
-The annual provided a valuable outlet for female writers throughout its existence. Critics who disparaged literary annuals in general would concede the quality of the illustrations.
-==''The Keepsake for 1828''==
+=== Editors ===
+William Harrison Ainsworth edited ''The Keepsake'' for 1828. [[Frederic Mansel Reynolds]] (c. 1800 to 1850)<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Reynolds, Frederic Mansel |last=Courtney |first=William Prideaux |authorlink=William Prideaux Courtney |volume=48 |pages= |quote= |vb= |supplement= |no-icon= |title= |url= |display=}}</ref> took over the editorship for the 1829 to 1835 volumes and again for 1838 and 1839.<ref name=":0" /> [[Caroline Norton]] edited ''The Keepsake'' for 1836, followed by [[Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley]] for the 1837 and 1840 volumes.<ref name=":0" /> [[Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington]], edited ''The Keepsake'' for 1841 to 1849.<ref name=":0" /> She was succeeded by [[Marguerite Agnes Power]], who edited the annual from 1850 to the final volume in 1857.<ref name=":0" />
-The first annual was edited by [[William Harrison Ainsworth]]. It was published by subscription. The names of the contributors were not listed, but they included Felicia Hemans, Percy Shelley, and Ainsworth himself.<ref>Paula R. Feldman's introduction to a re-edition of ''The Keepsake for 1829.'' Broadview Press, 2006.</ref>
+=== Publishers ===
-==''The Keepsake for 1829''==
+''The Keepsake'' was published in London for its full run, and some volumes were also published in Paris, Berlin, and Frankfurt. Its London publishers were Hurst, Chance, & Co.; Jennings and Chaplin; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman (in the [[Longman]] line); and David Bogue.<ref name=":0" /> In Paris, it was published by Rittner and Goupill, Delloy & Co., Fisher & Co., Aubert & Co., L. Curmer, Fisher, Son, & Co., and H. Mandeville.<ref name=":0" /> Other continental editions were published by Charles Jugil in Frankfurt, A. Asher in Berlin, and T. O. Weigel in Leipsic.<ref name=":0" /> American editions of ''The Keepsake'' were published in New York by [[D. Appleton & Company]] and in Philadelphia by Lea and Blanchard.<ref name=":0" />
-The contributors were listed as Sir Walter Scott, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, Lord Normanby, Lord Morpeth, Lord Porchester, Lord Holland, Lord F. L. Gower, Lord Nugent, W. Wordsworth, R. Southey, S. T. Coleridge, William Roscoe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Luttrell, Theodore Hook, J. G. Lockhart, T. Crofton Croker, R. Bernal, MP, Thomas Haynes Bayly, W. Jerdan, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Landon, M. L., Barry St. Leger, [[James Boaden]], W. H. Harrison, F. Mansel Reynolds, L. E. L. ([[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]), and the authors of ''Frankenstein'', ''The Roué'', and ''The O'Hara Tales''.
+=== Production ===
-It includes both "A Scene at Abbotsford" and three short stories by Sir [[Walter Scott]], now known as ''[[The Keepsake Stories]]'':
+The intensely competitive market for gift books drove innovations in book production. ''The Keepsake''<nowiki/>'s high-quality illustrations were created with steel plates, which were more durable than the copper plates that were more commonly used in the 1830s, and therefore could produce larger editions before being replaced.<ref name=":0" /> These illustrations were often commissioned before the short stories, poems, or essays that they were to accompany.<ref>Feldman 2006, p. 20.</ref>
-*"The Tapestried Chamber, or, The Lady in the Sacque"
-*"Death of the Laird's Jock"
-*"The Surgeon's Daughter"
+=== Contributors ===
-Mary Shelley's contributions were "The Sisters of Albano" and "Ferdinando Eboli". Wordsworth's were "The Country Girl", "The Triad", "The Wishing-Gate", and sonnets. Coleridge contributed "The Garden of Boccacio" and some epigrams. Felicia Hemans contributed "The Broken Chain".
+''The Keepsake for 1829'' is particularly notable for its contributors, which included the most popular authors and artists of the day, many of whose works now comprise the Romantic literary canon. Well known contributors to this volume include [[Mary Shelley]], [[Thomas Moore]], [[Walter Scott]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[Felicia Hemans]], [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] and [[Robert Southey]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Keepsake for 1829|publisher=Hurst, Chance, & Co.|year=1828|editor-last=Reynolds|editor-first=Frederic Mansel|location=London}} "Contents".</ref>
+The editors of ''The Keepsake'' offered generous compensation to its authors, but many were hesitant to publish their work in ''The Keepsake'' or other annuals because these publications were not well respected by critics.<ref name=":0" />
-==References==
-[[File:The Seashore, Cornwall engraving by William Miller after R P Bonington.jpg|thumb|''The Seashore. Cornwall'' engraving by [[William Miller (engraver)|William Miller]] after [[Richard Parkes Bonington|R. P. Bonington]],  published in ''The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI'']]
+==''The Keepsake for 1828''==
-{{reflist}}
+The first annual was edited by [[William Harrison Ainsworth]]. It was published by subscription. The names of the contributors were not listed, but they included Felicia Hemans, Percy Shelley, Letitia Landon, and Ainsworth himself.<ref>Feldman 2006.</ref>
+==''The Keepsake for 1829''==
-Paula R. Feldman, "Introduction" to The Keepsake for 1829. Broadview Press facsimile edition, 2006, pp.&nbsp;7–25.
+Following the Table of Contents is this List of Contributors (all caps, no italics):
+: Sir Walter Scott, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, Lord Normanby, Lord Morpeth, Lord Porchester, Lord Holland, Lord F.&nbsp;L. Gower, Lord Nugent, W. Wordsworth, R. Southey, S.&nbsp;T. Coleridge, William Roscoe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Luttrell, Theodore Hook, J.&nbsp;G. Lockhart, T.&nbsp;Crofton Croker, R.&nbsp;Bernal, M.&nbsp;P., Thomas Haynes Bayly, W.&nbsp;Jerdan, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Landon, M.&nbsp;L., Barry St.&nbsp;Leger, [[James Boaden]], W.&nbsp;H. Harrison, F.&nbsp;Mansel Reynolds, and the authors of ''Frankenstein'', ''The Roué'', and ''The O'Hara Tales''.
+"Miss Landon" is L. E. L., or [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]. Reynolds is the editor of this second annual volume and several later ones, credited on the title page as Frederic Mansel Reynolds.
+The volume contains four works, all prose, by [[Walter Scott]] as "the Author of Waverley". The first three are now known as ''[[The Keepsake Stories]]''.
-==Further reading==
+* "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror"
-* {{cite book |title=The Keepsake |publication-place=London }} [http://archive.org/stream/keepsake00ofgoog#page/n12/mode/2up 1851 ed.]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/keepsake00bogugoog#page/n15/mode/2up 1854 ed.]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/keepsake00powegoog#page/n10/mode/2up 1857 ed.]
+* "The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque"
+* "Death of the Laird's Jock"
+* "Description of the Engraving Entitled [line break] A Scene at Abbotsford"
+[[Mary Shelley]]'s contributions are "The Sisters of Albano" and "[[Ferdinando Eboli]]", two stories "by the author of Frankenstein". Wordsworth's are "The Country Girl", "The Triad", "The Wishing-Gate", and sonnets. Coleridge contributed "The Garden of Boccacio" and some epigrams. Felicia Hemans contributed "The Broken Chain" and Letitia Landon,"The Altered River" and her "Verses" on Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford.
+==References==
+{{reflist |25em |refs=
+<ref name=":0">
+{{Cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/index.html|title=L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829|date=1988|editor-last=Hoagwood|editor-first=Terence|editor2-last=Ledbetter|editor2-first=Kathryn|website=Romantic Circles|access-date=4 December 2017|editor3-last=Jacobsen|editor3-first=Martin}}</ref>
+}}
+Citations
+* Feldman, Paula R. (2006). "Introduction". ''The Keepsake for 1829''. Edited by Paula R. Feldman. Peterborough: [[Broadview Press]] (Broadview Facsimile Editions). {{ISBN|9781551115856}}. pp.&nbsp;7–25
 ==External links==
 {{commons category}}
+* {{BLCAT|002847015}} – "The keepsake for ..." (catalogue record)
-* [http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/keepsake.htm ''The Keepsake''] by Terence Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter, at [http://www.rc.umd.edu/ Romantic Circles], [[University of Maryland]]
+* ''The Keepsake'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=B-sNAAAAQAAJ 1828], [https://books.google.com/books?id=6fZLAAAAcAAJ 1829], [https://books.google.com/books?id=_fZLAAAAcAAJ 1830], [https://books.google.com/books?id=goVRAAAAcAAJ 1831], [https://books.google.com/books?id=2IVRAAAAcAAJ 1832], [https://books.google.com/books?id=dTQWAAAAYAAJ 1833], [https://books.google.com/books?id=74dRAAAAcAAJ 1834], [https://books.google.com/books?id=d39RAAAAcAAJ 1838], [https://books.google.com/books?id=eoFRAAAAcAAJ 1839], [https://books.google.com/books?id=h4FRAAAAcAAJ 1840], [https://books.google.com/books?id=joFRAAAAcAAJ 1841], [https://books.google.com/books?id=mIFRAAAAcAAJ 1848] at [[Google Books]]
+*  [https://archive.org/stream/keepsake00ofgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''The Keepsake'' 1851], [https://archive.org/stream/keepsake00bogugoog#page/n15/mode/2up 1854], [https://archive.org/stream/keepsake00powegoog#page/n10/mode/2up 1857] – digital copies at [[Internet Archive]]
+* [http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/ksintro.htm "Introduction to ''The Keepsake''"] by ''[[Romantic Circles]]''.
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