The Fate of Fenella

"The Fate of Fenella" was an experiment in consecutive novel writing inspired by J. S. Wood. The novel first appeared serially in Wood's weekly magazine, "Gentlewoman" in 1891 and 1892, before appearing in book form in May 1892. Each of the authors would write his chapter and pass it on to the next person in line. The odd-numbered chapters were written by women and the even-numbered chapters were written by men.

The chapters

The quotation marks in some chapter titles are as shown in the book.:Editor's note (from the August 1892 "cheap" edition by J. S. Wood
#Helen Mathers, "Fenella"
#Justin McCarthy, "Kismet"
#Francis Eleanor Trollope, "How it strikes a contemporary"
#Arthur Conan Doyle, "Between two fires"
#May Crommelin, "Complications"
#F. C. Phillips, "A woman's view of the matter"
#"Rita" (pseud. for Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan), "So near — so far away"
#Joseph Hatton, "The tragedy"
#Mrs. Lovett Cameron, "Free once again"
#Bram Stoker, "Lord Castleton explains"
#Florence Marryat, "Madame de Vigny's revenge"
#Frank Danby, "To live or die?"
#Mrs. Edward Kennard, "The scars remained"
#Richard Dowling, "Derelict"
#Mrs. Hungerford, "Another rift"
#Arthur A'Beckett, "In New York"
#Jean Middlemass, "Confined in a madhouse"
#Clement Scott, "Within sight of home"
#Clo Graves, "A vision from the sea"
#H. W. Lucy, "Through fire and water"
#Adeline Sergeant, "Alive or dead?"
#George Manville Fenn, "Retribution"
#"Tasma" (pseudonym for Jessie Couvreur née Huybers) [ [http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8363 Papers of Patricia Clarke - MS 8363 ] ] , "Sick unto death"
#F. Anstey, "Whom the gods hate die hard"

References

*"The Fate of Fenella", London, Hutchinson & Co., 1892
*Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson, "A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle", revised edition, Boston London and New York, Hudson House, 2000, pp. 345-6