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HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...

Charlotte Brontë noted that while JK admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. The two women shared a mutual acquaintance in William Smith Williams , a reader...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

CB received her third proposal when James Taylor , the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co. , asked her to marry him; she refused.

She was assisted in her research by Julia Wedgwood . By 6 February 1857 she had completed the manuscript, which had cost her £100 for research and travel. Unlike the manuscripts of her novels, it...

On 28 November 1862 Smith, Elder and Co. accepted JWM 's pamphlet March on Rome for publication, but it seems not to have been printed.

KT published four novels in 1905, one each in 1906 and 1907, four in every year from 1908 to 1911, and three in each of the next two years. Then after a few years with...

The cheap (6-shilling) single-volume edition of MAW 's novel Marcella appeared from Smith, Elder ; it helped to sink the three-volume format.

Strained in her relationship with Dickens , and despite not entirely easy relations with Thackeray , EG placed Curious if True in the first issue of Thackeray's new Cornhill Magazine in February 1860.

Macmillan , which had published Miss Bretherton, would not pay the £250 that MAW requested as an advance for her book, so she switched to Smith, Elder .