Smith, Elder and Co.

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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
Publishing Isa Blagden
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...
Publishing Charlotte Brontë
She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .
The firm was the publisher...
Textual Features Charlotte Brontë
The tale draws more than The Professor does on the earlier Angrian writings, since the response from Smith, Elder, and Co. indicated that her version of uncompromising realism did not sell; the hero Rochester in...
Publishing Charlotte Brontë
CB 's publisher, the London firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. , paid her £500 beyond their initial agreement of £100 for the hugely successful novel.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus.
161
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
527
In 2003 a copy of the first...
Literary responses Charlotte Brontë
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...
Reception Charlotte Brontë
Thomas Newby , Anne's publisher, made the claim, which alarmed Charlotte's Smith, Elder, and Co. ; the sisters revealed their identities solely to their publishers.
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 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
Occupation Emily Brontë
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...
Publishing Emily Brontë
Newby sent them no money, although the books did well enough to suggest that they ought to have received something in addition to a refund of their £50.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
525n55
The suggestion that Newby would be...
Other Life Event Charlotte Brontë
CB received her third proposal when James Taylor , the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co. , asked her to marry him; she refused.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
669
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...
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
The novel was published with Duffield and Co. in the USA and Smith, Elder & Co in the UK.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 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

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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