This book was enthusiastically received. Hurst and Blackett
had substance to justify their blocks of consecutive Times advertisements with excerpts from reviews: Well told. From one end to the other, it fixes attention,earnest and...
Publishing
Isabella Neil Harwood
Raymond's Heroine, another three-decker and one of INH
's most popular novels, was published by Hurst and Blackett
(to which now she changed from Tinsley Brothers
, who had published her earlier books).
“Multiple Advertisements and Notices”. The Morning Post, No. 29106.
“The New and Popular Novels”. The Era, No. 1489.
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
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.
Publishing
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
The book was published by Hurst and Blackett
, by whom, however, the author felt she was shabbily treated.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
527
Author summary
Geraldine Jewsbury
During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction...
Publishing
Geraldine Jewsbury
She received £180 from publishers Hurst and Blackett
. The novel was dedicated to D. M.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Right or Wrong. Hurst and Blackett.
prelims
whom some believe to be Dinah Mulock Craik
, though it has been argued that the true recipient...
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.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
45
She dedicated the work to her cousin the Rev. Philip Newnham
Publishing
Edna Lyall
Charles Bradlaugh
himself tutored EL
on the subject of secularism for this novel, which was at first to be called Erica. She had nearly finished writing it by the end of 1882, but during...
Publishing
Edna Lyall
Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett
.
Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood.