George Murray Smith

She saved half of the price (£2,600) and borrowed the rest on a mortgage from her publisher George Smith , all without her husband's knowledge. This suggests that despite the restrictions of Married Women's Property...

CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .

CB went from London to her friend Ellen Nussey 's in Yorkshire; from there she went on to Edinburgh to join her friends George Smith and his sister Eliza for a couple of days.

CB visited London, where her relationship with her publisher and friend George Smith turned away from intimacy.

She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith , of Smith, Elder, and Co. , and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster and...

Thus she launched a distinguished literary career that lasted for almost six decades. Publisher George Smith describes the ramshackle condition in which her work was usually delivered. Her copy for her books was a medley...

CB sent the final volume to her publishers on November 20th and panicked when she heard nothing from them, although a £500 cheque for the copyright arrived. As it emerged, George Smith disliked the unromantic...

EG herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband , her friend and lawyer William Shaen , and George Smith . A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of...

Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote to George Smith of Smith, Elder on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy...

She said she felt compelled to write this and some of her later works to fill a gap left by male historians and critics on the topic of women's influence: Though the historians of the...

CB sent off the completed manuscript of Jane Eyre on 24 August 1847. George Smith devoured the novel immediately and offered her £100 for it.

The Hogarth Press printed, for private circulation only, ER 's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson , the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher...

She earned £500 for the novel, which she asked her publisher George Smith to invest for her. She learned at this point that the crash in rail stocks had rendered her railway shares quite worthless.

CB declined publisher George Smith 's suggestion that she write her next novel in serial form.

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...