Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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...

Mary Russell Mitford believed by May 1837 that FH had received a pension from the Crown of £100 a year. In fact, Robert Peel , the prime minister, had in the year of her death...

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 ...

BH dated a preface to the US edition of her short-story collection In Varying Moods (published by Blackwood this year), which artfully presents her work to an American public.

BH published a novel entitled Katherine Frensham, the last that she issued through Blackwood .

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...

Blackwood's Magazine serialised the novel Singularly Deluded by the future SG ; Blackwood published it in volume form in 1893 as by the author of Ideala: A Study from Life.

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

DG 's novel entitled Lady Baby appeared from Blackwood , having already been serialized in Blackwood's Magazine.

EG and Dorothea Gerard published with Blackwood their first jointly-authored novel under their combined pseudonym, E. D. Gerard: Reata. What's in a Name

Following her Bis of 1890, Blackwood's published EG 's An Electric Shock, and Other Stories, a collection of six pieces.

EG was a regular contributor of stories to various periodicals. Blackwood 's publishing house issued at London and Edinburgh in 1890 Bis, a volume which collects four of her pieces from Blackwood's Magazine and Longman's Magazine.

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

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...