Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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Reception Frances Browne
Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...
Reception Felicia Hemans
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...
Reception George Eliot
Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters,
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 10
was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO 's Dante appeared as the first of Blackwood 's Foreign Classics for English Readers, a monograph series of which she was editor.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research.
159: 251
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2596 (1877): 103
Textual Production Lucy Walford
It was published by the Edinburgh firm of William Blackwood and Sons , who serialized many of her subsequent works.
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 Beatrice Harraden
BH published a novel entitled Katherine Frensham, the last that she issued through Blackwood .
Child, Harold H. “Katharine Frensham”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 94, p. 313.
313
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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
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...
Textual Production Isa Blagden
Poems, a posthumous collection of IB 's poetry, was prepared by Alfred Austin and published by William Blackwood .
Blagden, Isa, and Alfred Austin. Poems. William Blackwood and Sons.
title-page
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...
Textual Production Felicia Hemans
FH published Songs of the Affections, With Other Poems, with William Blackwood and Thomas Cadell .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
206
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 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...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB published her first novel, Dolores: her publisher, Blackwood , had thought when they accepted it that it was the work of a man.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz.
183
Textual Production Emily Lawless
EL published her third novel, Hurrish: A Study, in two volumes with William Blackwood .
New York Times. New York Times Company.
(21 March 1886): 12
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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