Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson
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Publishing | Isa Craig | IC
's first book of verse, Poems, a collection of her contributions to The Scotsman, was published in Edinburgh by Blackwood
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 1495 (21 June 1856): 775 |
Publishing | Emily Gerard | EG
was a regular contributor of stories to various periodicals. Blackwood
's publishing house issued at London and Edinburgh in 1890 Bis, a volume which collects four of her pieces from Blackwood's Magazine and Longman's Magazine. 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. |
Publishing | Anne Mozley | AM
published with Blackwood
at Edinburgh an anonymous collection: Essays on Social Subjects, from the Saturday Review. This is dated from an inscription. 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. |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | LW
's novel Cousins was published by Blackwood's
in Edinburgh and London. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Saturday Review. Chawton. 48.1244 (30 August 1879): 271 |
Publishing | George Eliot | In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood
, Lewes
invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith
(author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen
. The firm of Blackwood
turned out to be... |
Publishing | Sarah Grand | Blackwood's Magazine serialised the novel Singularly Deluded by the future SG
; Blackwood
published it in volume form in 1893 as by the author of Ideala: A Study from Life. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 60 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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 271 |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's novel Katie Stewart appeared as a serial (her first) in Blackwood's, to launch her long and fruitful relationship with William Blackwood
, famous Edinburgh publisher. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 341 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. |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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.... |
Publishing | Sarah Grand | It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 245 |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | 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. Harraden, Beatrice. “Preface”. In Varying Moods, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, p. i - viii. viii OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | 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... |
Publishing | George Eliot | 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. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 218, 221 |
Reception | Frances Browne | Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund
survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland
has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland
holds several... |
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