Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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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 Margaret Oliphant
MO 's novel Katie Stewart appeared as a serial (her first) in Blackwood's, to launch her long and fruitful relationship with William Blackwood , famous Edinburgh publisher.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
341
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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 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.
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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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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 Cousins was published by Blackwood's in Edinburgh and London.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Saturday Review. Chawton.
48.1244 (30 August 1879): 271
Textual Production Lucy Walford
LW 's Troublesome Daughters was published as a three-volume novel by W. Blackwood and Sons .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2752 (24 July 1880): 110
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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