John Blackwood

LW had many friends among literary people and those who moved in literary circles. She discussed the books of her childhood with Reginald Palgrave , who shared many of her early reading experiences, and Wilkie Collins

It was John Blackwood who thought of the eventual title, after candidates including The Tullivers, St. Oggs on the Floss, Sister Maggie, and The House of Tulliver; or, Life on the Floss...

John Blackwood , though he published it, disliked this story as too negative. It apparently appealed to French artist H. É. Blanchon , however, whose painting La transfusion du sang, based on the tale's...

Middlemarch's mode of publication meant that responses were coming in long before the book was complete, including formal reviews. R. H. Hutton for instance, wrote no less than 6 reviews for the Spectator...

John Blackwood was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray , too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood 's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled...

Again early criticism from John Blackwood upset GE . But Blackwood's response when she suggested ending her series of tales reassured her how much he valued them.

John Blackwood reproved MO for over-using favourite words in this book: he noticed specifically perplexed,troubled,little, and poor.

John Blackwood complained of a certain hardness of tone in Miss Marjoribanks. MO responded, I have a weakness for Lucilla, and to bring a sudden change upon her character and break her down...

John Blackwood , who knew her work well, once wrote that he considered biography her greatest forte.

On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

She began work on it by 6 September 1864, but within a few months (in February 1865) she was so bogged down and anxious that Lewes confiscated her manuscript. She took it up again in...

George Henry Lewes persuaded Blackwood to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to...

GE adopted in writing to her publisher, John Blackwood , her now famous pseudonym: before this Blackwood had written to her as author of, or even as Dear Amos.

Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. The parts sold 7,500 copies, and GE 's letter of thanks...

Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had...