Hurst and Blackett

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
This book was enthusiastically received. Hurst and Blackett had substance to justify their blocks of consecutive Times advertisements with excerpts from reviews: Well told. From one end to the other, it fixes attention,earnest and...
Publishing Isabella Neil Harwood
Raymond's Heroine, another three-decker and one of INH 's most popular novels, was published by Hurst and Blackett (to which now she changed from Tinsley Brothers , who had published her earlier books).
“Multiple Advertisements and Notices”. The Morning Post, No. 29106.
“The New and Popular Novels”. The Era, No. 1489.
Textual Production Isabella Neil Harwood
Hurst and Blackett published INH 's novel Kathleen, again in three volumes without her name but with mention of previous works.
Hunt, Leigh, editor. The Examiner. John Hunt.
3171 (7 November 1868)
Textual Production Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
MCH published as one of Blackett 's Select Shilling Novels series a lengthy pamphlet, Only a Woman's Life, By One Who Saved It, about her intervention on behalf of Fanny Stallard , who was condemned for child-murder.
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.
Publishing Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
The book was published by Hurst and Blackett , by whom, however, the author felt she was shabbily treated.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
527
Author summary Geraldine Jewsbury
During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction...
Publishing Geraldine Jewsbury
She received £180 from publishers Hurst and Blackett . The novel was dedicated to D. M.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Right or Wrong. Hurst and Blackett.
prelims
whom some believe to be Dinah Mulock Craik , though it has been argued that the true recipient...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
Her last reader's report was composed two weeks before her death in 1880.
Carney, Karen M. “The Publisher’s Reader as Feminist: The Career of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
29
, No. 2, pp. 146-58.
155
Beginning in 1860, she also read for Hurst and Blackett . This work probably exacerbated her failing eyesight.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
239
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
186
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. Geraldine Jewsbury’s Athenaeum Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction. S. Academiae Ubsaliensis.
13
Publishing Edna Lyall
Charles Bradlaugh himself tutored EL on the subject of secularism for this novel, which was at first to be called Erica. She had nearly finished writing it by the end of 1882, but during...
Publishing Edna Lyall
Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett .
Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood.
21
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
In the year before...
Publishing Edna Lyall
In spring 1920 demand remained high enough for the publishers Hurst and Blackett to advertise a long list of EL 's titles at two shillings each.
Publishing Edna Lyall
She was introduced to the publishers of this novel, Hurst and Blackett , through the good offices of the writer George Macdonald .
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
45
She dedicated the work to her cousin the Rev. Philip Newnham
Publishing Eliza Meteyard
She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
181
Mary and William Howitt helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...
Publishing Caroline Norton
Though the London editions bore the date of 1868, Hurst and Blackett advertised the book as [r]eady at all the libraries on 28 December 1867.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(28 December 1867): 11
Old Sir Douglas was also serialised...
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...

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Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Through Spain to the Sahara. Hurst and Blackett, 1868.
Blagden, Isa. The Crown of a life. Hurst and Blackett, 1869.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Dead Love has Chains. Hurst and Blackett, 1907.
Browne, Frances. My Share of the World. Hurst and Blackett, 1861.
Browne, Frances. The Castleford Case. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Bunbury, Selina. Life in Sweden. Hurst and Blackett, 1853.
Bunbury, Selina. Russia After the War. Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Mary Mirrilees. Hurst and Blackett, 1916.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Won at Last. Hurst and Blackett, 1874.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Clive, Caroline. John Greswold. Hurst and Blackett, 1864.
Cooper, Elizabeth, and Lady Arbella Stuart. The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart. Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Brave Lady. Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, editor. A Legacy. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. Hurst and Blackett.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Noble Life. Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women. Hurst and Blackett, 1858.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Christian’s Mistake. Hurst and Blackett, 1865.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Hannah. Hurst and Blackett, 1872.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. John Halifax, Gentleman. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Mistress and Maid. Hurst and Blackett, 1863.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Poems. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Woman’s Kingdom. Hurst and Blackett, 1869.