John Blackwood

GE adopted in writing to her publisher, John Blackwood , her now famous pseudonym: before this Blackwood had written to her as author of, or even as Dear Amos.

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...

The eighth and final book of GE 's Middlemarch appeared, causing publisher John Blackwood to write that the year would be remembered for this event.

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...

Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had...

A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood . She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...

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....

Many friends of GE including Edith J. Simcox , plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight , believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes for his tireless protection of GE

LW 's commentary suggest she was superficial in her judgements, anchoring her opinions time and again on appearance. A prominent example comes in her assessment of George Eliot , with whom she was invited to...

GE published The Spanish Gypsy, a poem with some faint resemblance to a verse drama. To Blackwood she wrote that it was not a Romance. It is—prepare your fortitude—a poem.

She mentioned to publisher John Blackwood her certainty that she had faculties that might be utilized to the making of beautiful books.

GE began writing Adam Bede in October 1857. She decided, this time, against serialization. The first person but Lewes to read any of it (the opening thirteen chapters) was John Blackwood on the...

The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria ...