William Blackwood

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

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...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...

The third volume, not by her, followed the next year. Blackwood commissioned her to write this official history, with payment of £500 a year during its composition.

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...

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.

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

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...