Hurst and Blackett

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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 Catherine Gore
CG published with Hurst and Blackett (successors to Colburn ) her penultimate novel, The Two Aristocracies.
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.
Gore, Catherine. The Two Aristocracies. Hurst and Blackett.
title-page
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Hurst & Blackett published CADS 's novel The Caddis-Worm; or, Episodes in the Life of Richard and Catharine Blake.
The date comes from the Bodleian Library copy. The caddis worm, larva of the dragonfly...
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...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
Years later HB was moved to write an autobiographical article of 12,000 words to refute something similar by Armiger Barclay in which he claimed to be the author of The Honey-Pot. It was through...
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 Jane Williams
JW officially edited (but in fact virtually wrote) The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis , A Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr, which was published by Hurst and Blackett in two volumes.
Beddoe, Deirdre et al. “Introduction”. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, Honno, 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 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 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 Dinah Mulock Craik
A Brave Lady was published in three volumes in March 1870 by Hurst and Blackett .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
131
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 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, 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.
239
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
186
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. Geraldine Jewsbury’s Athenaeum Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction. S. Academiae Ubsaliensis.
13
Textual Production May Crommelin
MC 's novel Joy; or, The Light of Cold-Home Ford appeared in three volumes from Hurst and Blackett .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
31234 (9 September 1884): 10

Timeline

January 1853: The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was...

Writing climate item

January 1853

The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was founded at 13 Great Marlborough Street, London, by Daniel Hurst and Henry Blackett on their buying Henry Colburn 's business.

Texts

“Critical Notices: Raymond’s Heroine. A Novel”. The United Service Magazine, Vol.
114
, Hurst and Blackett, pp. 119-20.
Banks, Isabella. Caleb Booth’s Clerk. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
Banks, Isabella. Glory. Hurst and Blackett, 1877.
Banks, Isabella. The Manchester Man. Hurst and Blackett, 1876.
Banks, Isabella. Wooers and Winners. Hurst and Blackett, 1880.
Barcynska, Hélène. Black Harvest. Hurst and Blackett, 1960.
Barcynska, Hélène. Calm Waters. Hurst and Blackett, 1940.
Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946.
Barcynska, Hélène. Chicane. Hurst and Blackett, 1912.
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett, 1941.
Barcynska, Hélène. Madame Adastra. Hurst and Blackett, 1964.
Barcynska, Hélène. Misty Angel. Hurst and Blackett, 1931.
Barcynska, Hélène. Pretty Dear. A Romance. Hurst and Blackett, 1920.
Barcynska, Hélène. The Garment of Gold. Hurst and Blackett, 1921.
Barcynska, Hélène. The Honey Pot. A Story of the Stage. Hurst and Blackett, 1916.
Barcynska, Hélène. The Pleasure Garden. Hurst and Blackett, 1923.
Barcynska, Hélène. Vista, The Dancer. Hurst and Blackett, 1928.
Barcynska, Hélène. Vista, the Dancer. Hurst and Blackett, 1982.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. A Winter with the Swallows. Hurst and Blackett, 1867.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Doctor Jacob. Hurst and Blackett, 1864.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Felicia. Hurst and Blackett, 1875.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Holidays in Eastern France. Hurst and Blackett, 1879.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Kitty. Hurst and Blackett, 1869.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Love and Mirage. Hurst and Blackett, 1885.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. The Lord of the Harvest. Hurst and Blackett, 1899.