The house of Blackwood
Subtitle: author-publisher relations in the Victorian era
By: David Finkelstein.
Series: Penn State series in the history of the book
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: William Blackwood and Sons -- History.; Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: "The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors - including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others - in book form and in its monthly Blackwood's Magazine. In The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Finding success : Blackwood's, 1860-1879; title: Africa rewritten : the case of John Hanning Speke; title: Reade revised : A woman hater and the women's medical movement; title: Shifting ground : Blackwood's, 1880-1912; title: Creating house identities : nineteenth-century publishing memoirs and the Annals of a publishing house; title: "A grocer's business" : William Blackwood III and the literary agents.