Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO 's Cervantes, also written for her edited series of Blackwood 's Foreign Classics for English Readers, appeared.
Biographer Elisabeth Jay agrees with this date,
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
342
but the Feminist Companion and OCLC WorldCat both give the date as 1880.
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.
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO 's Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends (first two volumes), appeared posthumously.Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Book publication followed in 1856. Blackwood paid her £800, which she acknowledged to be very liberal.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
280
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
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...
Leisure and Society Margaret Oliphant
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 .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
114
Publishing May Sinclair
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...
Publishing May Sinclair
She may have been working on this book as early as 1894. With one novel out, she then acquired an agent, A. P. Watt , the first in Britain. This was regarded as an honour...
Textual Production May Sinclair
MS had driven herself to collapse by the work she put into it. Its appearance was delayed while she searched for a US publisher; Henry Holt took it on although MS refused to make the...
Publishing Freya Stark
At nearly ninety, FS published a photo essay entitled Rivers of Time, with William Blackwood of Edinburgh. Introduced by Alexander Maitland , it contains photographic selections from her varied travels in the Middle East.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
363
Publishing Agnes Strickland
They failed to reach agreement with Colburn , and this collection was published by William Blackwood in Edinburgh.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
211
It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...
Publishing Elizabeth Strickland
Another joint project was the long-running Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain, which appeared from Blackwood in Edinburgh between late 1850 and 1859...
Textual Production Katherine Cecil Thurston
It was published by William Blackwood and Sons in London, and a few weeks later appeared in New York, published by Dodd and Mead .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3926 (24 January 1903): 124
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
23.138 (March 1903): 228
Publishing Lucy Walford
LW 's novel The Baby's Grandmother was published by Blackwood in Edinburgh.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
13.2 (April 1885): 423
Textual Production Lucy Walford
It was published by the Edinburgh firm of William Blackwood and Sons , who serialized many of her subsequent works.

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