Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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