qtd. in
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
77
Smith, Elder and Co.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's two-volume novel Blue Roses; or, Helen Malinofska's Marriage (published as by the author of Véra) was the first to appear after she moved from the publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. |
| Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
| 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 | 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
. |
| 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 | Emily Lawless | Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder
, the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan
the same year. 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. 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 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 | 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, 1881. 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, 1994, p. various pages. xxvi Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , 1980, pp. 285-7. 291 |
| 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, 1988. xv, xvi Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 256 |
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