Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | The successful publication of Mr. Smith initiated a positive working relationship with her publisher John Blackwood
. She found his approach to corrections delicate, and its effect salutary. In Recollections, LW
speaks very... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Walford | The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria
... |
Reception | Lucy Walford | LW
's commentary suggest she was superficial in her judgements, anchoring her opinions time and again on appearance. A prominent example comes in her assessment of George Eliot
, with whom she was invited to... |
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. 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. 274 |
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. 300 |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | John Blackwood
complained of a certain hardness of tone Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 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. 253 |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | She mentioned to publisher John Blackwood
her certainty that she had faculties that might be utilized to the making of beautiful books. Anderson, Nancy F. Woman against Women in Victorian England. Indiana University Press. 100 |
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
adopted in writing to her publisher, John Blackwood
, her now famous pseudonym: before this Blackwood had written to her as author of, or even as Dear Amos. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 2: 290-2 |
Publishing | George Eliot | |
Textual Production | George Eliot | GE
published The Spanish Gypsy, a poem with some faint resemblance to a verse drama. To Blackwood
she wrote that it was not a Romance. It is—prepare your fortitude—a poem. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 4: 354 Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall. 106 |
Publishing | George Eliot | The eighth and final book of GE
's Middlemarch appeared, causing publisher John Blackwood
to write that the year would be remembered for this event. Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall. 127 Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 5: 352-3 |
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