George Murray Smith

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.

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...

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...