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BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
The first number of the new story paper is out. Its title is The Scandal-Weed, and its author is Beatrice Heron-Maxwell. All the stories to appear are absolutely new, and among the well-known writers whose pens have been engaged to write them are William Le Queux, Arthur Applin, Edgar Wallace, Alicia Ramsay, Elizabeth York Miller, Edwin Pugh, Lillias Campbell Davidson, Vere Campbell, Penelope Yorke, and many more. The enterprise seems likely to be very successful. (The Evening Post, New Zealand, September 2, 1911).
A partial record of the series' publication history is available at the Homeville web site. The Homeville listing begins with Tit-Bits Novel No. 131, dated January 5, 1911, which contained Isobel W. Seymour's novel The Myterious Marriage and Chapters 10 and 11 of Seton Cross's novel The Twelfth Crime. It ends with Tit-Bits Novel No. 156, dated June 29, 1915 and containing Rex Colvile's Love Adrift and Part 7 of Annesly Kenealy's The Grip of the Past.
Apart from The Price a Woman Pays, Edgar Wallace wrote at least one other story for this series—Five Fateful Words, which, according to Google Books, appeared in 1915.
Research undertaken while preparing the PGA/RGL edition of The Price a Woman Pays failed to determine the exact date of publication, but it is assumed to have appeared in the course of 1911.
The following illustration is provided to give the reader an impression of the look and feel of the Tit-Bits Novels series.
The present PGA/RGL edition of The Price a Woman Pays was built from digital images of the syndicated serial version published in The Maitland Daily Mercury in 1913 and archived at Trove, the web site of the National Library of Australia. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected without comment.
So far as could be ascertained, this is the first time the story has appeared in book form since its first publication. —R.G.
