On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett
books bound...
Publishing
Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
This novel is wrongly attributed in OCLC Worldcat to MADH
's daughter Iza
.
Hurst and Blackett
(who from this point became MADH
's regular publishers) placed a block of four advertisements for this novel...
Reception
Dinah Mulock Craik
John Halifax was in such demand that DMC
's publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic...
Textual Features
Ethel Savi
All or almost all of ES
's fiction is set in Bengal. In 1920 her publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, advertised her 6 Famous Indian Novels at two shillings each.
Textual Production
Hélène Barcynska
After her implicit agreement with her estranged husband
over Pretty Dear (that he could continue to take half her profits for publications under the name of Barcynska), Marguerite Barclay submitted to Woman's Weekly a new...
Textual Production
Frances Browne
FB
published her first three-volume novel, My Share of the World: An Autobiography with Hurst and Blackett
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 March 1861): 11
Textual Production
Isabella Neil Harwood
Hurst and Blackett
published INH
's novel Kathleen, again in three volumes without her name but with mention of previous works.
Hunt, Leigh, editor. The Examiner. John Hunt.
3171 (7 November 1868)
Textual Production
Dinah Mulock Craik
A Brave Lady was published in three volumes in March 1870 by Hurst and Blackett
.
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.
Textual Production
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
MCH
published as one of Blackett
's Select Shilling Novels series a lengthy pamphlet, Only a Woman's Life, By One Who Saved It, about her intervention on behalf of Fanny Stallard
, who was condemned for child-murder.
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.
Textual Production
May Crommelin
MC
's novel Joy; or, The Light of Cold-Home Ford appeared in three volumes from Hurst and Blackett
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
31234 (9 September 1884): 10
Textual Production
May Crommelin
MC
published her final novel, Halfpenny House, for which she returned to Hurst and Blackett
, a publisher she had used back in the 1880s.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
43615 (1 April 1924): 9
Textual Production
May Crommelin
MC
quickly followed this with a second romance, My Love She's But a Lassie, Hurst and Blackett
, 1875, published by the author of Queenie, with Simon Wastell quoted on the title-page and...
Textual Production
Geraldine Jewsbury
Her last reader's report was composed two weeks before her death in 1880.
Carney, Karen M. “The Publisher’s Reader as Feminist: The Career of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
29
, No. 2, 1 June 1996– 2025, pp. 146-58.
155
Beginning in 1860, she also read for Hurst and Blackett
. This work probably exacerbated her failing eyesight.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893.
239
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
186
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. Geraldine Jewsbury’s Athenaeum Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction. S. Academiae Ubsaliensis, 1986.
Beddoe, Deirdre et al. “Introduction”. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, Honno, 1987, p. ix - xix.
xiii-xiv
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.
Textual Production
Julia Stretton
In a one-volume anonymous Hurst and Blackett
reprint of 1860 the title-page quotes Tennyson
on the rosebud garden of girls. The book is dedicated to Margaret, my sister, feeling sure, that the seven other sisters...
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Texts
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Through Spain to the Sahara. Hurst and Blackett, 1868.
Blagden, Isa. The Crown of a life. Hurst and Blackett, 1869, 3 vols.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Dead Love has Chains. Hurst and Blackett, 1907.
Browne, Frances. My Share of the World. Hurst and Blackett, 1861, 3 vols.
Browne, Frances. The Castleford Case. Hurst and Blackett, 1862, 3 vols.
Bunbury, Selina. Life in Sweden. Hurst and Blackett, 1853, 2 vols.
Bunbury, Selina. Russia After the War. Hurst and Blackett, 1857, 2 vols.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Mary Mirrilees. Hurst and Blackett, 1916.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Won at Last. Hurst and Blackett, 1874, 3 vols.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections. Hurst and Blackett, 1862, 2 vols.
Clive, Caroline. John Greswold. Hurst and Blackett, 1864, 2 vols.
Cooper, Elizabeth, fl. 1865 - 1874, and Lady Arbella Stuart. The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart. Hurst and Blackett, 1866, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Brave Lady. Hurst and Blackett, 1870, 3 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, editor. A Legacy. Hurst and Blackett, 1878, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. New, Hurst and Blackett.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. 1st ed., Hurst and Blackett, 1859, 3 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Noble Life. Hurst and Blackett, 1866, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women. Hurst and Blackett, 1858.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Christian’s Mistake. Hurst and Blackett, 1865.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Hannah. Hurst and Blackett, 1872, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. John Halifax, Gentleman. Hurst and Blackett, 1856, 3 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Mistress and Maid. Hurst and Blackett, 1863, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Poems. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Woman’s Kingdom. Hurst and Blackett, 1869, 3 vols.
