Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

FH 's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood with a dedication to Joanna Baillie .

SF 's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns , after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

MO hosted a party on the island of Runnymede (not far from her home at Windsor) to celebrate twenty-five years of her affiliation with Blackwood's .

Blackwood published the novelA Domestic Experiment by SG (not yet using that name), which she had written while living in Warrington some ten years earlier. It appeared as by the author of Ideala, A...

ALW became Oliphant 's housekeeper, confidante, and amanuensis. In February 1877 Oliphant passed on to her the continuation of the arduous translation from French of Montalembert 's Les Moines d'Occident, suggesting to Blackwood's a...

BH dated a preface to the US edition of her short-story collection In Varying Moods (published by Blackwood this year), which artfully presents her work to an American public.

GE was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade....

The successful publication of Mr. Smith initiated a positive working relationship with her publisher John Blackwood . She found his approach to corrections delicate, and its effect salutary. In Recollections, LW speaks very...

Blackwood rejected this novel: William Blackwood thought it too sad to suit the public taste.BH then made the mistake of selling the copyright to the publisher who had accepted her, Lawrence and Bullen ...

This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood , was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over...

Book publication followed in 1856. Blackwood paid her £800, which she acknowledged to be very liberal.

She had written it earlier that year, as a distraction from her harder work on The Mill on the Floss. Blackwood paid her £37.10s. for it.

Another joint project was the long-running Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain, which appeared from Blackwood in Edinburgh between late 1850 and 1859...

MO missed one instalment, that which would have appeared in April 1864, following the death of her only surviving daughter, Maggie. Next month the serial resumed. For this work Blackwood offered her the remarkable sum...