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HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...

People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt (who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams , reader for Smith and Elder ; Robert Owen , socialist; Frank Stone ...

Charlotte Brontë noted that while JK admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. The two women shared a mutual acquaintance in William Smith Williams , a reader...

Charlotte Brontë 's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co. , rejected HM 's pro-Catholic novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook.

The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary...

Rigby also responded to the widespread speculation that Currer Bell was both a woman and a governess with the view that the book she deplores for an inexcusable coarseness of language and laxity of tone...

Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK had told Charlotte Brontë that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors.

Charlotte's account of EB 's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the...

CB received her third proposal when James Taylor , the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co. , asked her to marry him; she refused.

AMC 's early work drew the attention of two major publishing houses. Both Smith, Elder & Co. and Adam and Charles Black invited her to become a major contributor to significant projects. With Black, Clerke...

It appeared in volume form the same year, published in England by Smith, Elder and abroad (like most of ATR 's other works) by Tauchnitz in Leipzig. It was reissued by Smith, Elder the...

Smith, Elder and Co. of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning may have similarly persuaded publishers to...

Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder , the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan the same year.

Tauchnitz made this the title piece of a collection of long short fiction published in 1876, that substantially overlaps with the contents of Smith, Elder 's To Esther and Other Sketches, 1876.

One of the pieces in this volume, Cornborough Vicarage was said in the Feminist Companion to have been serialized in Good Words, but Stamp thinks it unlikely that any of the volume's contents had...