Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Walford | The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria
... |
Textual Production | George Eliot | GE
published The Spanish Gypsy, a poem with some faint resemblance to a verse drama. To Blackwood
she wrote that it was not a Romance. It is—prepare your fortitude—a poem. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 4: 354 Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall. 106 |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | She mentioned to publisher John Blackwood
her certainty that she had faculties that might be utilized to the making of beautiful books. Anderson, Nancy F. Woman against Women in Victorian England. Indiana University Press. 100 |
Textual Production | George Eliot | GE
began writing Adam Bede in October 1857. She decided, this time, against serialization. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 187, 197 |
Reception | George Eliot | Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE |
Reception | Lucy Walford | LW
's commentary suggest she was superficial in her judgements, anchoring her opinions time and again on appearance. A prominent example comes in her assessment of George Eliot
, with whom she was invited to... |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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... |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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... |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 2: 290-2 |
Publishing | George Eliot | |
Publishing | Emily Gerard | 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... |
Publishing | George Eliot | The eighth and final book of GE
's Middlemarch appeared, causing publisher John Blackwood
to write that the year would be remembered for this event. Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall. 127 Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 5: 352-3 |
Publishing | George Eliot | In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood
, Lewes
invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith
(author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen
. The firm of Blackwood
turned out to be... |
Publishing | 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 |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | At one point John Blackwood
objected that an instalment was too short: Oliphant did not insist on her own preference, but agreed to break the narrative in a different place. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 274 |
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