Smith, Elder and Co.

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Travel Charlotte Brontë
She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith , of Smith, Elder, and Co. , and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster and...
Textual Production Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
SACD 's The White Company, his best-known historical novel and probably his best-known non-Sherlock-Holmes work, was serialised in the Cornhill. It came out as a book from Smith, Elder , this year.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press.
76
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM collected a volume of her short stories, called A Green Englishman and other stories of Canada, based on her travels in Canada and published through Smith, Elder and Co.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the series, was published by Smith Elder in 1858.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
191
Ruth Rendell wrote an introduction to a Penguin edition in 1991. The fourth in the series, Framley Parsonage...
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM 's final novel, Some Elderly People and their Young Friends, was issued by Smith, Elder and Co. in London and by E. P. Dutton in New York. Smith, Elder came out with...
Textual Production Queen Victoria
QV 's successful Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, edited by Arthur Helps , was published by Smith, Elder .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2098 (1868): 47
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 55. Gale Research.
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
Beginning with the name Lucy Snowe, she changed it to Frost, then changed it back again. A cold name she must have.
Spawls, Alice. “If It Weren’t for Charlotte”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 22, pp. 16-24.
23
The second volume came more slowly, particularly after CB 's father had...
Textual Production Emily Brontë
The publishers of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer , Ellis , and Acton Bell and reissued it.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
9, 64
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM published through Smith, Elder and Co.Suggestions Towards the Future Government of India.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1586 (1858): 365
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM published Enthusiasm, and Other Poems with London's Smith, Elder .
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
42-3
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.
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
It was published in book form on 4 November 1878 by Smith, Elder .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
27
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 .
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.
Textual Production Charlotte Chanter
CC published her only novel, the historical Over the Cliffs, in two volumes with Smith, Elder .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1719 (6 October 1860): 449
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 Caroline Chisholm
A later edition of the Voluntary Information prospectus was published in London in 1848, but CC 's plans to publish the complete collection with Smith, Elder, and Co. of London by subscription never came to...

Timeline

November 1896: The Publishers Council objected to series...

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November 1896

The Publishers Council objected to series such as Popular New Novels, The Masterpiece Library, and the Review of Reviews, all of which published abridgements of popular novels and were edited by W. T. Stead .

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

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1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).

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