Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson

FH 's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood with a dedication to Joanna Baillie .

SF 's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns , after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

MO hosted a party on the island of Runnymede (not far from her home at Windsor) to celebrate twenty-five years of her affiliation with Blackwood's .

Blackwood published the novelA Domestic Experiment by SG (not yet using that name), which she had written while living in Warrington some ten years earlier. It appeared as by the author of Ideala, A...

ALW became Oliphant 's housekeeper, confidante, and amanuensis. In February 1877 Oliphant passed on to her the continuation of the arduous translation from French of Montalembert 's Les Moines d'Occident, suggesting to Blackwood's a...

They failed to reach agreement with Colburn , and this collection was published by William Blackwood in Edinburgh. It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...

MO missed one instalment, that which would have appeared in April 1864, following the death of her only surviving daughter, Maggie. Next month the serial resumed. For this work Blackwood offered her the remarkable sum...

George Henry Lewes persuaded Blackwood to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to...

At nearly ninety, FS published a photo essay entitled Rivers of Time, with William Blackwood of Edinburgh. Introduced by Alexander Maitland , it contains photographic selections from her varied travels in the Middle East.

FH published National Lyrics, and Songs for Music with the Dublin firm of Curry ; in August followed Scenes and Hymns of Life with Blackwood's in Edinburgh.

Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. The parts sold 7,500 copies, and GE 's letter of thanks...

She spent a year searching for a publisher before having her book accepted by Blackwood 's; it appeared under a system known as half-profits, in which the author paid money up front in return...

FH 's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood to match her rate of more than a pound per...

Bowles had begun this book as long ago as 1819. She received £60 from Blackwood's for the finished work (though this sum including money for a few outstanding payments). An American edition followed in 1845....