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
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, 25 Mar. 1867.
“The New and Popular Novels”. The Era, No. 1489, 7 Apr. 1867.
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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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.
