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Smith, Elder and Co.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Emily Lawless | Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder
, the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan
the same year. Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
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, 1994. 161 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 527 |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
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