Hurst and Blackett

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Publishing Edna Lyall
In spring 1920 demand remained high enough for the publishers Hurst and Blackett to advertise a long list of EL 's titles at two shillings each.
Publishing Eliza Meteyard
She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
181
Mary and William Howitt helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...
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 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, 1857, 3 vols.
title-page
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 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, 1995.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
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 .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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 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 .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, 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
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...

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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.