John Blackwood

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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 ...