Smith, Elder and Co.

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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
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 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, 1876.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, 1980, pp. 285-7.
291-2
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. 1992–1998, 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 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 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, 1972.
154
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, 1994.
525n55
The suggestion that Newby would be...
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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
147-8
Publishing Emma Frances Brooke
The novel was published with Duffield and Co. in the USA and Smith, Elder & Co in the UK.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, 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.
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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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...

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