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2 unusual facts about Tottel's Miscellany


Richard Tottel

The majority of his printing was centered around legal documents, but he is most known for a collection he edited and published in 1557 called Songes and Sonnettes.

The book that gained him a lasting place in history is his publication and editing of Songes and Sonettes, also known as Tottel's Miscellany.


Frances Minto Elliot

She also wrote three novels and published art criticism and gossipy, sometimes scandalous, sketches for The Art Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, and The New Monthly Magazine, often under the pseudonym, "Florentia".

Isabella Frances Romer

She began in 1840 to contribute sketches and short stories to Bentley's Miscellany and other periodicals, including the great rival to Bentley's, Henry Colburn's New Monthly Magazine.

Planetary mnemonic

Schott's Miscellany by Ben Schott included the mnemonic, Many Very Educated Men Justify Stealing Unique Ninth.

Richard Harris Barham

In 1826 Barham first contributed to Blackwood's Magazine; and in 1837 he began to furnish to a recently-initiated magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, the series of tales (most of them metrical, some in prose) known as The Ingoldsby Legends.

Sonnet

Having previously circulated in manuscripts only, both poets' sonnets were first published in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnetts, better known as Tottel's Miscellany (1557).


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