George Murray Smith

AP was reportedly engaged for a time in the later 1850s, but the identity of her suitor is not known. Publisher George Smith records having admired her. He said that Charlotte Brontë , when they...

She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie and John Ruskin

Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle . ATR was friends with Dickens 's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens .George Smith was from the 1840s a...

CB 's epistolary relationship with George Smith , in which she often refers to herself by her masculine pseudonym, was playful and teasing. Biographer Juliet Barker suggests that over the London visits and the Scottish...

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...

From very early in her writing of this novel (begun on New Year's Day 1862), she lived with an agonizing fear of failure. The fact of writing about characters whose native language was Italian made...

She had written it by 27 September 1860 and used it, like The Lifted Veil, as a receptacle for negative feelings after writing The Mill on the Floss. She let George Smith of...

She contributed a few short non-fiction pieces to the Pall Mall Gazette after George Smith started it up in 1865 with Lewes as advisor, and also that year wrote a long review of William Lecky

The Hogarth Press printed, for private circulation only, ER 's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson , the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher...

Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote to George Smith of Smith, Elder on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy...

CB sent off the completed manuscript of Jane Eyre on 24 August 1847. George Smith devoured the novel immediately and offered her £100 for it.

She said she felt compelled to write this and some of her later works to fill a gap left by male historians and critics on the topic of women's influence: Though the historians of the...

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.

EG herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband , her friend and lawyer William Shaen , and George Smith . A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of...