George Murray Smith

Standard Name: Smith, George Murray

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Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
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...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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...
Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
639-43
Travel Charlotte Brontë
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.
Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB visited London, where her relationship with her publisher and friend George Smith turned away from intimacy.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
235
Travel Charlotte Brontë
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...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Gaskell
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...

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