Smith, Elder and Co.

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Travel Charlotte Brontë
She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith , of Smith, Elder, and Co. , and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster and...
Textual Production Queen Victoria
QV 's successful Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, edited by Arthur Helps , was published by Smith, Elder .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2098 (1868): 47
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 55. Gale Research.
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
Beginning with the name Lucy Snowe, she changed it to Frost, then changed it back again. A cold name she must have.
Spawls, Alice. “If It Weren’t for Charlotte”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 22, pp. 16-24.
23
The second volume came more slowly, particularly after CB 's father had...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM published through Smith, Elder and Co.Suggestions Towards the Future Government of India.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1586 (1858): 365
Textual Production Emily Brontë
The publishers of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer , Ellis , and Acton Bell and reissued it.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
9, 64
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM published Enthusiasm, and Other Poems with London's Smith, Elder .
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
42-3
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Frances Mary Peard
The last novel of FMP 's long career, The Flying Months, appeared this year both from Smith, Elder and from Tauchnitz .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
It was published in book form on 4 November 1878 by Smith, Elder .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
27
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
Charlotte Cowan succeeded in publishing two novels during the year she became CR : The Moors and the Fens as F. G. Trafford, with Smith, Elder , and The Ruling Passion as Rainey Hawthorne...
Textual Production Charlotte Chanter
CC published her only novel, the historical Over the Cliffs, in two volumes with Smith, Elder .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1719 (6 October 1860): 449
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Miss Williamson's Divagations, a collection of six short stories by ATR , was published by Smith, Elder .
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Williamson’s Divagations. Smith, Elder.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
xxvi
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
291
Textual Production Caroline Chisholm
A later edition of the Voluntary Information prospectus was published in London in 1848, but CC 's plans to publish the complete collection with Smith, Elder, and Co. of London by subscription never came to...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder 's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press.
xv, xvi
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
256
Textual Production Mabel Birchenough
MB published her first novel, Disturbing Elements, through Smith, Elder and Co.
Birchenough, Mabel. Disturbing Elements. Macmillan and Co.
front‐matter
“Monthly List of New Books”. Book Reviews: A Monthly Journal Devoted to New and Current Publications, No. 3, MacMillan and Co.
2 (February 1896): 2
Textual Production Emily Lawless
Maelcho: A Sixteenth-Century Narrative, another historical novel by EL , was published by Smith, Elder and Co. .
Hansson, Heidi. Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace. Cork University Press.
170

Timeline

November 1896: The Publishers Council objected to series...

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November 1896

The Publishers Council objected to series such as Popular New Novels, The Masterpiece Library, and the Review of Reviews, all of which published abridgements of popular novels and were edited by W. T. Stead .

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

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1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).

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