Harraden, Beatrice. “Preface”. In Varying Moods, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, p. i - viii.
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Publishing | Lucy Walford | 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... |
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 | Beatrice Harraden | 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. Harraden, Beatrice. “Preface”. In Varying Moods, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, p. i - viii. viii OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 | 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 | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | George Eliot | |
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 |
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... |
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