John Blackwood

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

GE began writing Adam Bede in October 1857. She decided, this time, against serialization. The first person but Lewes to read any of it (the opening thirteen chapters) was John Blackwood on the...

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....

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...

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...