qtd. in
Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard, 1899.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. qtd. in Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard, 1899. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt
(who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams
, reader for Smith and Elder
; Robert Owen
, socialist; Frank Stone
... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
noted that while JK
admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols. II: 173 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co.
, rejected HM
's pro-Catholic
novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 2: 382 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 692 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Rigby also responded to the widespread speculation that Currer Bell was both a woman and a governess with the view that the book she deplores for an inexcusable coarseness of language and laxity of tone... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Julia Kavanagh | Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK
had told Charlotte Brontë
that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols. II: 182 |
Occupation | Emily Brontë | Charlotte's account of EB
's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the... |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Brontë | CB
received her third proposal when James Taylor
, the managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, asked her to marry him; she refused. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 669 |
Publishing | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's two-volume novel Blue Roses; or, Helen Malinofska's Marriage (published as by the author of Véra) was the first to appear after she moved from the publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. |
Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
Publishing | Annie Tinsley | She sold the copyright of The Cruelest Wrong of All, which was published allusively as by the author of Margaret, to Smith, Elder
; they sold it on to Chapman and Hall
... |
Publishing | Eleanor Farjeon | EF
's first novel, The Romance of Christina, which she worked at obsessively as an escape from her poverty-pinched life at home during her young-adult years, was rejected, though in an encouraging way, by Smith Elder
. qtd. in Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986. 77 |
Publishing | Annie Tinsley | The copyright of this work had a history rather like that of The Cruelest Wrong of All. She sold this, too, to Smith, Elder
, though for a limited period of seven years. She... |
Publishing | Emily Lawless | Published in London in 1892 by Smith and Elder
, the book appeared in a New York edition from Macmillan
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
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