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Smith, Elder and Co.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's publisher, the London firm of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, paid her £500 beyond their initial agreement of £100 for the hugely successful novel. Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus, 1994. 161 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 527 |
Publishing | Eleanor Farjeon | EF
's first novel, The Romance of Christina, which she worked at obsessively as an escape from her poverty-pinched life at home during her young-adult years, was rejected, though in an encouraging way, by Smith Elder
. qtd. in Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986. 77 |
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. |
Publishing | Mary Linskill | One of the pieces in this volume, Cornborough Vicarage was said in the Feminist Companion to have been serialized in Good Words, but Stamp thinks it unlikely that any of the volume's contents had... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | Despite the fact that MAW
had been a best-selling author, the poor showing of her recent books meant that Reginald Smith
of Smith, Elder
was for some time unable to place her next novel, the... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 426-7 |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | Thomas Newby
, Anne's publisher, made the claim, which alarmed Charlotte's Smith, Elder, and Co.
; the sisters revealed their identities solely to their publishers. |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband
, her friend and lawyer William Shaen
, and George Smith
. A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Brontë | The tale draws more than The Professor does on the earlier Angrian writings, since the response from Smith, Elder, and Co.
indicated that her version of uncompromising realism did not sell; the hero Rochester in... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | Charlotte Cowan
succeeded in publishing two novels during the year she became CR
: The Moors and the Fens as F. G. Trafford, with Smith, Elder
, and The Ruling Passion as Rainey Hawthorne... |
Textual Production | Frances Mary Peard | The last novel of FMP
's long career, The Flying Months, appeared this year both from Smith, Elder
and from Tauchnitz
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