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Publishing | George Eliot | 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... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | Blackwood
rejected this novel: William Blackwood
thought it too sad to suit the public taste. |
Publishing | Annie Louisa Walker | She did not press for payment, and when the publisher, William Blackwood
, offered her remuneration she replied that she knew about my cousin's debt to you
, and it was because of this that... |
Publishing | George Eliot | |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | Book publication followed in 1856. Blackwood
paid her £800, which she acknowledged to be very liberal. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 280 |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | |
Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Bowles had begun this book as long ago as 1819. She received £60 from Blackwood's
for the finished work (though this sum including money for a few outstanding payments). An American edition followed in 1845.... |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | 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. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 269 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. 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. |
Publishing | May Sinclair | She spent a year searching for a publisher before having her book accepted by Blackwood
's; it appeared under a system known as half-profits, in which the author paid money up front in return... |
Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Bell had published An Experiment in Education, about his experiments in Madras, in 1797. His work on a system by which elder pupils helped teach the younger ones was parallelled by that of Joseph Lancaster |
Publishing | Susan Ferrier | SF
only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers... |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood
to match her rate of more than a pound per... |
Publishing | May Sinclair | She may have been working on this book as early as 1894. With one novel out, she then acquired an agent, A. P. Watt
, the first in Britain. This was regarded as an honour... |
Publishing | Susan Ferrier | Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism! Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne. 68 |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | For her later volumes of poetry (with the exception of one aimed at children), FH
moved to publishing with William Blackwood
and Thomas Cadell
. |
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