Smith, Elder and Co.

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Publishing Emily Lawless
Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder , the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan the same year.
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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Hamilton King
HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking.
Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard.
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One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...
Friends, Associates Julia Kavanagh
Charlotte Brontë noted that while JK admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press.
II: 173
The two women shared a mutual acquaintance in William Smith Williams , a reader...
Material Conditions of Writing Julia Kavanagh
Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK had told Charlotte Brontë that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors.
Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press.
II: 182
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...
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.
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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
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
Strained in her relationship with Dickens , and despite not entirely easy relations with Thackeray , EG placed Curious if True in the first issue of Thackeray's new Cornhill Magazine in February 1860.
Some pressure...
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.
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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.
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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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

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