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Smith, Elder and Co.
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Publishing | Katharine Tynan | 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. KT
calls The Dear Irish Girl... |
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 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. |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Brontë | CB
received her third proposal when James Taylor
, the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, asked her to marry him; she refused. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 669 |
Occupation | Emily Brontë | 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... |
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, 1980, 4 vols. II: 182 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary... |
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