William Blackwood

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 ...

Eight or nine months before her death MO told her publisher William Blackwood of a minor ailment which has often been interpreted symbolically: I have worked a hole in my right forefinger—with the pen, I...

BH described herself as the literary god-daughter of Eliza Lynn Linton . (Her literary godfather was William Blackwood ). Her first meeting with Linton (the turning-point of her life, she wrote) took place in...

While in Scotland she met not only Scott and Jeffrey , she met in person her publisher William Blackwood , writer Anne Grant , critic John Wilson , and sculptor Angus Fletcher .

They edited the Inverness Courier together from October 1817 (at a joint annual salary of a hundred pounds). From 1827 CIJ was the editor, while her husband and William Blackwood were owners, of the Edinburgh...