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Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. or Smith, Elder and Co. was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century. It was purchased by John Murray in the early 1900s, its archive now kept as part of the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland in ...
- Defunct
- George Smith and Alexander Elder
3 ott 2023 · Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. [1] or Smith, Elder and Co. [2] [3] was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century. It was purchased by John Murray in the early 1900s, its archive now kept as part of the John Murray Archive at the National Library of ...
Smith, Elder & Co. was a british firm of publishers founded by George Smith (1789-1846) and Alexander Elder (1790-1876). In 1859, they published The Cornhill Magazine. The firm began as booksellers and stationers in Fenchurch Street, moving to 65 Cornhill in 1824, and moving to 15 Waterloo Place.
The collection contains autograph letters from the files of the London publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. Letters are from writers and artists chiefly to George Smith (1824-1901); his mother, Elizabeth Murray Smith (1797-1878); or his wife, Elizabeth Blakeway Smith. The subject matter is, with a few exceptions, social in nature.
23 mar 2017 · Smith, Elder & Co: Anne Brontë In London – Anne Brontë. When Charlotte and Anne Brontë arrived in London on the morning of 8th July 1848, they had just one thing on their mind: restoring their honour. A day earlier a letter had arrived from Charlotte’s publisher, Smith, Elder & Co. that would change literary history for ever.
After turning down, as several other publishers had already done, Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor, Smith — by now, at age twenty-two, following the death of his father, the retirement of Alexander Elder, and the withdrawal of the third partner, the single head of the firm -- accepted the manuscript of Jane Eyre, which Brontë submitted to ...
Overview. Smith, Elder and Company. Quick Reference. Publishers of Charlotte Brontë's novels and of some later editions of Emily's and Anne's works, founded by two young Scotsmen, George Smith (1789–1846) and Alexander Elder (1790–1876). In 1816 they ... From: Smith, Elder and Company in The Oxford Companion to the Brontës »
