Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Smith, Elder and Co.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Publishing | Agnes Mary Clerke | 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... |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | This article overlaps with the essay on juvenile crime which she had written and submitted that year to an annual competition originated by Lady Byron
. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co. 326 |
Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | Avillion and Other Tales, published this year by Smith, Elder
, was Dinah Mulock
's first collection of short fiction. Volume One is available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/avillion1.html. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 132 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. 1360 (19 November 1853): 1380 |
Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's next novel Iseulte (issued as by the author of Véra), appeared in both England and the US, published by Smith, Elder, and Co.
and Harper and Brothers
respectively. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's two-volume novel Blue Roses; or, Helen Malinofska's Marriage (published as by the author of Véra) was the first to appear after she moved from the publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
's The White Company, his best-known historical novel and probably his best-known non-Sherlock-Holmes work, was serialised in the Cornhill. It came out as a book from Smith, Elder
, this year. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press. 76 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Eleanor Farjeon | EF
's first novel, The Romance of Christina, which she worked at obsessively as an escape from her poverty-pinched life at home during her young-adult years, was rejected, though in an encouraging way, by Smith Elder
. Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae. 77 |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 426-7 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | She was assisted in her research by Julia Wedgwood
. By 6 February 1857 she had completed the manuscript, which had cost her £100 for research and travel. Unlike the manuscripts of her novels, it... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband
, her friend and lawyer William Shaen
, and George Smith
. A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Publishing | Dorothea Gerard | DG
published with Smith, ElderThe Austrian Officer at Work and at Play, with a frontispiece showing Franz Joseph
on horseback in the uniform of a field-marshall. Gerard, Dorothea. The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play. Smith, Elder. title-page |
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 |
Publishing | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote to George Smith
of Smith, Elder
on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy... |
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