John Blackwood

GE was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade....

The successful publication of Mr. Smith initiated a positive working relationship with her publisher John Blackwood . She found his approach to corrections delicate, and its effect salutary. In Recollections, LW speaks very...

This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood , was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over...

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...

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...

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