Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

LW 's novel The Baby's Grandmother was published by Blackwood in Edinburgh.

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

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.

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...

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....

Blackwood rejected this novel: William Blackwood thought it too sad to suit the public taste.BH then made the mistake of selling the copyright to the publisher who had accepted her, Lawrence and Bullen ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.