George Murray Smith

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...

CB 's epistolary relationship with George Smith , in which she often refers to herself by her masculine pseudonym, was playful and teasing. Biographer Juliet Barker suggests that over the London visits and the Scottish...

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.

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.