OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Smith, Elder and Co.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 426-7 |
| Reception | Charlotte Brontë | Thomas Newby
, Anne's publisher, made the claim, which alarmed Charlotte's Smith, Elder, and Co.
; the sisters revealed their identities solely to their publishers. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband
, her friend and lawyer William Shaen
, and George Smith
. A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Brontë | The tale draws more than The Professor does on the earlier Angrian writings, since the response from Smith, Elder, and Co.
indicated that her version of uncompromising realism did not sell; the hero Rochester in... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | SM
published Enthusiasm, and Other Poems with London's Smith, Elder
. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999. 42-3 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. |
| Textual Production | Caroline Chisholm | A later edition of the Voluntary Information prospectus was published in London in 1848, but CC
's plans to publish the complete collection with Smith, Elder, and Co.
of London by subscription never came to... |
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