Smith, Elder and Co.

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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.
161
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
527
In 2003 a copy of the first...
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 .
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
77
Publishing Katharine Tynan
Smith, Elder and Co. , who became KT 's publisher for fiction until the death of Reginald Smith in 1916, printed her fourth novel, The Dear Irish Girl.
KT calls The Dear Irish Girl...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
In 1915 Smith, Elder and Co. re-issued this novel, following it up in 1916 with a revised edition bearing SM 's name.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Katharine Tynan
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...
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 Jessie White Mario
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.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press.
154
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
The cheap (6-shilling) single-volume edition of MAW 's novel Marcella appeared from Smith, Elder ; it helped to sink the three-volume format.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
147-8
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
Some pressure...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
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 .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
411
Publishing Dorothea Gerard
DG published with Smith, ElderThe Austrian Officer at Work and at Play, with a frontispiece showing Franz Joseph on horseback in the uniform of a field-marshall.
Gerard, Dorothea. The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play. Smith, Elder.
title-page
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
Daphne and the novels that followed it (discussed below among her other later novels) sold so badly that publication of Delia Blanchflower, another major attack on women's suffrage, was delayed because Reginald Smith of...
Publishing Emily Brontë
Newby sent them no money, although the books did well enough to suggest that they ought to have received something in addition to a refund of their £50.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
525n55
The suggestion that Newby would be...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder and £2,000 from Doubleday .
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
The novel was published with Duffield and Co. in the USA and Smith, Elder & Co in the UK.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

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