John Blackwood

Standard Name: Blackwood, John

Connections

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Friends, Associates Lucy Walford
LW had many friends among literary people and those who moved in literary circles. She discussed the books of her childhood with Reginald Palgrave , who shared many of her early reading experiences, and Wilkie Collins
Intertextuality and Influence George Eliot
It was John Blackwood who thought of the eventual title, after candidates including The Tullivers, St. Oggs on the Floss, Sister Maggie, and The House of Tulliver; or, Life on the Floss...
Literary responses George Eliot
John Blackwood was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray , too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood 's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled...
Literary responses George Eliot
Again early criticism from John Blackwood upset GE . But Blackwood's response when she suggested ending her series of tales reassured her how much he valued them.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
179
Literary responses George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
131
), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...
Literary responses Margaret Oliphant
John Blackwood reproved MO for over-using favourite words in this book: he noticed specifically perplexed,troubled,little, and poor.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
300
Literary responses Margaret Oliphant
John Blackwood complained of a certain hardness of tone
qtd. in
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
225
in Miss Marjoribanks. MO responded, I have a weakness for Lucilla, and to bring a sudden change upon her character and break her down...
Literary responses Margaret Oliphant
John Blackwood , who knew her work well, once wrote that he considered biography her greatest forte.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
253
Literary responses George Eliot
John Blackwood , though he published it, disliked this story as too negative. It apparently appealed to French artist H. É. Blanchon , however, whose painting La transfusion du sang, based on the tale's...
Literary responses George Eliot
Middlemarch's mode of publication meant that responses were coming in long before the book was complete, including formal reviews. R. H. Hutton for instance, wrote no less than 6 reviews for the Spectator...
Publishing Emily Gerard
Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had...
Publishing George Eliot
GE was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade....
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
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...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
At one point John Blackwood objected that an instalment was too short: Oliphant did not insist on her own preference, but agreed to break the narrative in a different place.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
274
The novel appeared in...
Publishing George Eliot
This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood , was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over...

Timeline

April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...

Writing climate item

April 1817

The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 7-9, 11
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
69

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