William Blackwood

HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson

The previous year young William Blackwood reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby.Henry James

MO wrote to ask William Blackwood for a position on his magazine reviewing novels: this was the beginning of fifty years' work in that capacity.

MO 's Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends (first two volumes), appeared posthumously.Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

She began writing out of her love for the craft. Orphaned at an early age and surviving on a small annuity provided by a relation, she later turned to her pen as a means of...

Blackwood becomes a hero of capitalism, on a quest to establish his firm as an empire. His business rivals are presented as insubordinate princes, or as monsters. MO mentions his beautiful relationship with his widowed...

Publisher William Blackwood spoke at celebrations held in Edinburgh to mark the centenary of Scott 's birth.

In a letter to William Blackwood written even before the book appeared in volume form, on 5 December 1892, SG confessed her disappointment with it. It seemed to her such poor work now that I...

EF 's next publication, in Blackwood's Magazine, was a spoof or pastiche: seven lyrics purporting to come from an imaginary book called The Shepheard's Gyrlond, 1594, by the fictional Nathaniel Downes. When...

SF only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers...

She did not press for payment, and when the publisher, William Blackwood , offered her remuneration she replied that she knew about my cousin's debt to you , and it was because of this that...

She based her characters and setting on Warrington. On 28 June 1892 she wrote to her publisher, William Blackwood , that she felt this novel to be a young work and crude—too liberal...

She wrote it, she said, because she felt there was something very wrong in the present state of society, and . . . I did what I could to suggest a remedy. Its publication...

Blackwood rejected this novel: William Blackwood thought it too sad to suit the public taste.BH then made the mistake of selling the copyright to the publisher who had accepted her, Lawrence and Bullen ...

Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...