Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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Textual Production Isa Blagden
Poems, a posthumous collection of IB 's poetry, was prepared by Alfred Austin and published by William Blackwood .
Blagden, Isa, and Alfred Austin. Poems. William Blackwood and Sons.
title-page
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...
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 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
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...
Publishing Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB issued anonymously with Blackwood of Edinburgh and Cadell of London a three-volume novel entitled Conduct is Fate.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Conduct is Fate. William Blackwood and T. Cadell.
title-page
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...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB published her first novel, Dolores: her publisher, Blackwood , had thought when they accepted it that it was the work of a man.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz.
183
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 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
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...

Timeline

1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...

Writing climate item

1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.

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