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

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...

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 ...

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...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...

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. The novel appeared in...

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.

She mentioned to publisher John Blackwood her certainty that she had faculties that might be utilized to the making of beautiful books.

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...

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.