Smith, Elder and Co.

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...

Sappho had been rudely rejected by Smith, Elder , and Dawson used all of her savings (£64) to get it published.

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. .

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.

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 ...

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...

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. In 2003 a copy of the first...

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 .

Smith, Elder and Co. , who became KT 's publisher for fiction until the death of Reginald Smith in 1916, printed her fourth novel, The Dear Irish Girl.

In 1915 Smith, Elder and Co. re-issued this novel, following it up in 1916 with a revised edition bearing SM 's name.

CB received her third proposal when James Taylor , the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co. , asked her to marry him; she refused.

Charlotte's account of EB 's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the...

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.

Rigby also responded to the widespread speculation that Currer Bell was both a woman and a governess with the view that the book she deplores for an inexcusable coarseness of language and laxity of tone...

Charlotte Brontë 's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co. , rejected HM 's pro-Catholic novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook.