Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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
. |
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... |
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. |
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 | 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... |
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 |
Publishing | 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
... |
Publishing | 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... |
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. |
Textual Production | 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 |
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... |
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