Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

FH 's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood with a dedication to Joanna Baillie .

SF 's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns , after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

MO hosted a party on the island of Runnymede (not far from her home at Windsor) to celebrate twenty-five years of her affiliation with Blackwood's .

Blackwood published the novel A Domestic Experiment by SG (not yet using that name), which she had written while living in Warrington some ten years earlier. It appeared as by the author of Ideala, A...

ALW became Oliphant 's housekeeper, confidante, and amanuensis. In February 1877 Oliphant passed on to her the continuation of the arduous translation from French of Montalembert 's Les Moines d'Occident, suggesting to Blackwood's a...

She did not press for payment, and when the publisher, William Blackwood , offered her remuneration she replied that she knew about my cousin's debt to you , and it was because of this that...

George Henry Lewes persuaded Blackwood to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to...

Blackwood rejected this novel: William Blackwood thought it too sad to suit the public taste.BH then made the mistake of selling the copyright to the publisher who had accepted her, Lawrence and Bullen ...

Book publication followed in 1856. Blackwood paid her £800, which she acknowledged to be very liberal.

Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. The parts sold 7,500 copies, and GE 's letter of thanks...

MO missed one instalment, that which would have appeared in April 1864, following the death of her only surviving daughter, Maggie. Next month the serial resumed. For this work Blackwood offered her the remarkable sum...

Bowles had begun this book as long ago as 1819. She received £60 from Blackwood's for the finished work (though this sum including money for a few outstanding payments). An American edition followed in 1845....

She spent a year searching for a publisher before having her book accepted by Blackwood 's; it appeared under a system known as half-profits, in which the author paid money up front in return...

Bell had published An Experiment in Education, about his experiments in Madras, in 1797. His work on a system by which elder pupils helped teach the younger ones was parallelled by that of Joseph Lancaster