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...
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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...
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR
's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder
's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press.
xv, xvi
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
256
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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...
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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
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Miss Williamson's Divagations, a collection of six short stories by ATR
, was published by Smith, Elder
.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Williamson’s Divagations. Smith, Elder.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
xxvi
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
291
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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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Annie Tinsley
She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder
; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall
...
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Annie Tinsley
The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder
, though for a limited period of seven years. She...
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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...
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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
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...
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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.
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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.
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
.