Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

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.

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...

Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. The parts sold 7,500 copies, and GE 's letter of thanks...

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...

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!Blackwood paid...

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 ...

SF 's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns , after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

DG 's novel entitled Lady Baby appeared from Blackwood , having already been serialized in Blackwood's Magazine.

EG and Dorothea Gerard published with Blackwood their first jointly-authored novel under their combined pseudonym, E. D. Gerard: Reata. What's in a Name

Following her Bis of 1890, Blackwood's published EG 's An Electric Shock, and Other Stories, a collection of six pieces.

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.

Blackwood published the novel A Domestic Experiment by SG (not yet using that name), which she had written while living in Warrington some ten years earlier. It appeared as by the author of Ideala, A...

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.

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