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The Fate of Fenella

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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

  1. Helen Mathers, "Fenella"
  2. Justin McCarthy, Kismet
  3. Francis Eleanor Trollope, How it strikes a contemporary
  4. Arthur Conan Doyle, "Between two fires"
  5. May Crommelin, Complications
  6. F. C. Phillips, A woman's view of the matter
  7. "Rita" (pseud. for Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan), So near — so far away
  8. Joseph Hatton, The tragedy
  9. Mrs. Lovett Cameron, Free once again
  10. Bram Stoker, Lord Castleton explains
  11. Florence Marryat, Madame de Vigny's revenge
  12. Frank Danby, To live or die?
  13. Mrs. Edward Kennard, "The scars remained"
  14. Richard Dowling, Derelict
  15. Mrs. Hungerford, Another rift
  16. Arthur A'Beckett, In New York
  17. Jean Middlemass, Confined in a madhouse
  18. Clement Scott, "Within sight of home"
  19. Clo Graves, A vision from the sea
  20. H. W. Lucy, Through fire and water
  21. Adeline Sergeant, "Alive or dead?"
  22. George Manville Fenn, Retribution
  23. "Tasma" (pseudonym for Jessie Couvreur née Huybers), Sick unto death
  24. 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



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