She explains that when the owner of the London Journal, George Stiff
, went bankrupt earlier in the year, he decided that he did not want his successors to print her story. To prevent...
Publishing
Harriet Smythies
HS
wrote a letter to the Royal Literary Fund
explaining the circumstances under which her publisher
stole and destroyed the manuscript she was writing for serialization in the London Journal.
Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press.