Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | Macmillan
, which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW
requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 411 |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | Daphne and the novels that followed it (discussed below among her other later novels) sold so badly that publication of Delia Blanchflower, another major attack on women's suffrage, was delayed because Reginald Smith
of... |
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, 1913. title-page |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder
and £2,000 from Doubleday
. |
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... |
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... |
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 | Katharine Tynan | Smith, Elder and Co.
, who became KT
's publisher for fiction until the death of Reginald Smith
in 1916, printed her fourth novel, The Dear Irish Girl. KT
calls The Dear Irish Girl... |
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, 1993. 426-7 |
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. |
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... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | Despite the fact that MAW
had been a best-selling author, the poor showing of her recent books meant that Reginald Smith
of Smith, Elder
was for some time unable to place her next novel, the... |
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... |
Textual Production | Anthony Trollope | Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the series, was published by Smith Elder
in 1858. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 191 |
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, 2007. 170 |
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