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...

SF only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers...

FH 's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood to match her rate of more than a pound per...

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...

Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism!Blackwood paid...

For her later volumes of poetry (with the exception of one aimed at children), FH moved to publishing with William Blackwood and Thomas Cadell .

LCB issued anonymously with Blackwood of Edinburgh and Cadell of London a three-volume novel entitled Conduct is Fate.

Having lost money by SF 's previous novel, Blackwood refused this one, which set her on her high horse about the crass commercialism of publishers. The novel was brought out instead by Thomas Cadell ...

Many critics locate a shift in FH 's poetry in the period following her mother's death and the break-up of the domestic conditions that had fostered her writing both practically and emotionally. While many poems...

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.