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...

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...

George Henry Lewes persuaded Blackwood to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to...

They failed to reach agreement with Colburn , and this collection was published by William Blackwood in Edinburgh. It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...

FH published National Lyrics, and Songs for Music with the Dublin firm of Curry ; in August followed Scenes and Hymns of Life with Blackwood's in Edinburgh.

Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. The parts sold 7,500 copies, and GE 's letter of thanks...

At nearly ninety, FS published a photo essay entitled Rivers of Time, with William Blackwood of Edinburgh. Introduced by Alexander Maitland , it contains photographic selections from her varied travels in the Middle East.