Smith, Elder and Co.

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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...
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.
Publishing Annie Tinsley
She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder ; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall ...
Publishing Annie Tinsley
The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder , though for a limited period of seven years. She...
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...
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
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
In 1915 Smith, Elder and Co. re-issued this novel, following it up in 1916 with a revised edition bearing SM 's name.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 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...
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
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 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 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.

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