Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt
(who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams
, reader for Smith and Elder
; Robert Owen
, socialist; Frank Stone
... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
noted that while JK
admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 173 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co.
, rejected HM
's pro-Catholic
novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 382 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 692 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Rigby also responded to the widespread speculation that Currer Bell was both a woman and a governess with the view that the book she deplores for an inexcusable coarseness of language and laxity of tone... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Julia Kavanagh | Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK
had told Charlotte Brontë
that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 182 |
Occupation | Emily Brontë | Charlotte's account of EB
's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the... |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Brontë | CB
received her third proposal when James Taylor
, the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, asked her to marry him; she refused. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 669 |
Publishing | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's early work drew the attention of two major publishing houses. Both Smith, Elder & Co.
and Adam and Charles Black
invited her to become a major contributor to significant projects. With Black, Clerke... |
Publishing | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | It appeared in volume form the same year, published in England by Smith, Elder
and abroad (like most of ATR
's other works) by Tauchnitz
in Leipzig. It was reissued by Smith, Elder
the... |
Publishing | Isa Blagden | Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to... |
Publishing | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Tauchnitz
made this the title piece of a collection of long short fiction published in 1876, that substantially overlaps with the contents of Smith, Elder
's To Esther and Other Sketches, 1876. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Out of the World and Other Tales. B. Tauchnitz. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 291-2 |
Publishing | Emily Lawless | Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder
, the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Sappho had been rudely rejected by Smith, Elder
, and Dawson used all of her savings (£64) to get it published. |
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