George Bell and Sons

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Anne Ridler
Her brother was working for publishers George Bell , and she met a number of authors, including Antonia White and Margaret Kennedy . Later, through her own work, she met with T. S. Eliot 's...
Literary responses Anna Steele
The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
Publishing Margaret Gatty
All of MG 's books but one were pubished by Bell and Sons . Her family enjoyed with the Bells a family friendship through three generations, while the grandfather of the men who published MG
Publishing Adelaide Procter
According to Bessie Rayner Parkes , Procter had to be urged to publish the collection. The first series, which was issued at a price of 5 shillings by Bell and Daldy , had another edition...

Timeline

1839
George Bell founded his publishing firm in London; it specialised in educational books.
1839
George Bell founded his publishing firm in London; it specialised in educational books.
November 1881
Aunt Judy's Magazine, the leading fictionperiodicalfor children founded by Margaret Gatty , changed publishers, and adopted a new format with a cover designed by Randolph Caldecott .

Texts

Browning, Robert, and Samuel R. Gardiner. Strafford. Editor Hickey, Emily, George Bell and Sons, 1884.
Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo. George Bell and Sons, 1904.
Dickens, Charles, William Charles Thomas Dobson, Adelaide Procter, and William Charles Thomas Dobson. “An Introduction”. Legends and Lyrics, Fifteenth, George Bell and Sons, 1874, p. xi - xxxi.
Le Breton, Anna Letitia. Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including Letters and Notices of her Family and Friends. George Bell and Sons, 1874.
Le Breton, Anna Letitia. Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including Letters and Notices of her Family and Friends. George Bell and Sons, 1974.
Procter, Adelaide, and Charles Dickens. Legends and Lyrics. George Bell and Sons, 1874.
Leland, John. The Itinerary of John Leland. Editor Smith, Lucy Toulmin, George Bell and Sons, 1910.