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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | 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/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
noted that while JK
admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 173 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Julia Kavanagh | Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK
had told Charlotte Brontë
that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 182 |
Publishing | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote to George Smith
of Smith, Elder
on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy... |
Textual Production | Thomas Hardy | It was published in book form on 4 November 1878 by Smith, Elder
. Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press. 27 |
Publishing | Dorothea Gerard | DG
published with Smith, ElderThe Austrian Officer at Work and at Play, with a frontispiece showing Franz Joseph
on horseback in the uniform of a field-marshall. Gerard, Dorothea. The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play. Smith, Elder. title-page |
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. 426-7 |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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
. Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae. 77 |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
's The White Company, his best-known historical novel and probably his best-known non-Sherlock-Holmes work, was serialised in the Cornhill. It came out as a book from Smith, Elder
, this year. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press. 76 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's next novel Iseulte (issued as by the author of Véra), appeared in both England and the US, published by Smith, Elder, and Co.
and Harper and Brothers
respectively. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. |
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