Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne.
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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 | Susan Ferrier | Having lost money by SF
's previous novel, Blackwood
refused this one, which set her on her high horse about the crass commercialism of publishers. The novel was brought out instead by Thomas Cadell
... |
Reception | George Eliot | She wished Blackwood
, her publisher, to deny the authenticity of this work in the Times rather than the Athenæum—which just as her identity was becoming known published a nasty personal attack in its... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | George Eliot | |
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... |
Reception | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
Publishing | Isa Craig | IC
's first book of verse, Poems, a collection of her contributions to The Scotsman, was published in Edinburgh by Blackwood
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. 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 |
Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | She began it in summer 1909, writing it in the schoolroom where she was meant to instruct her younger sisters, using a sharp-pointed pencil and tiny handwriting in a series of exercise books, digging the... |
Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | |
Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | Susan Ferrier
helped with this first publication since LCB
's second marriage—the first that belongs to the decades of her novelistic career—by submitting it to Blackwood
, her own publisher, as early as January 1820... |
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