Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | She began it in summer 1909, writing it in the schoolroom where she was meant to instruct her younger sisters, using a sharp-pointed pencil and tiny handwriting in a series of exercise books, digging the... |
| Publishing | Annie Louisa Walker | She did not press for payment, and when the publisher, William Blackwood
, offered her remuneration she replied that she knew about my cousin's debt to you
, and it was because of this that... |
| Publishing | Isa Craig | IC
's first book of verse, Poems, a collection of her contributions to The Scotsman, was published in Edinburgh by Blackwood
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 1495 (21 June 1856): 775 |
| Publishing | Lucy Walford | LW
's novel Cousins was published by Blackwood's
in Edinburgh and London. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Saturday Review. Chawton. 48.1244 (30 August 1879): 271 |
| Publishing | Sarah Grand | Blackwood's Magazine serialised the novelSingularly Deluded by the future SG
; Blackwood
published it in volume form in 1893 as by the author of Ideala: A Study from Life. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 60 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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 271 |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's novel Katie Stewart appeared as a serial (her first) in Blackwood's, to launch her long and fruitful relationship with William Blackwood
, famous Edinburgh publisher. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 341 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. |
| Publishing | George Eliot | In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood
, Lewes
invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith
(author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen
. The firm of Blackwood
turned out to be... |
| Publishing | Sarah Grand | It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 245 |
| Publishing | Lucy Walford | |
| Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
dated a preface to the US edition of her short-story collection In Varying Moods (published by Blackwood
this year), which artfully presents her work to an American public. Harraden, Beatrice. “Preface”. In Varying Moods, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894, p. i - viii. viii OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Publishing | George Eliot | GE
was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade.... |
| Publishing | Lucy Walford | The successful publication of Mr. Smith initiated a positive working relationship with her publisher John Blackwood
. She found his approach to corrections delicate, and its effect salutary. In Recollections, LW
speaks very... |
| Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | Blackwood
rejected this novel: William Blackwood
thought it too sad to suit the public taste. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Publishing | George Eliot | This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood
, was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith
of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over... |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | Book publication followed in 1856. Blackwood
paid her £800, which she acknowledged to be very liberal. qtd. in Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 280 |
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